  3 steps to effective New Year’s resolutions   There is a
saying that, ‘If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.’ So one of
the first things to do when you make your list of New Year’s
resolutions is to make a battle plan. Here are tips for helping
you achieve every goal this year.  Know what you want  What is
your desired outcome for this year? And how would ‘success’
(i.e. achieving this outcome) look like? An outcome or goal is
simply a dream with legs, since goals are what drive us forward.
We must have something to aim for otherwise we would have to
drag ourselves out of bed each morning.  Be a winner not a
whiner  The opposite of ‘goal-setting’ is ‘problem-thinking’,
which simply focuses on what is wrong. Such a mindset would make
an individual a ‘whiner’ instead of a ‘winner’. Aim for results
instead of excuses. Goal-setting shifts the focus from ‘What is
wrong’ to ‘What could be right?’. If you could wake up tomorrow
and everything was resolved, what would be happening? Ensure
that your desired outcome