{"id":1356,"date":"2009-12-28T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:42:29","slug":"what-makes-resolutions-achievable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/what-makes-resolutions-achievable\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes resolutions achievable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever stood with your glass of champagne in hand and declared that this year is the one when you&#8217;ll run a marathon, lose 50 pounds or get a great new job?<br \/>\nThen all you have to show for your half-hearted commitment is a champagne hangover?<br \/>\nThis week I&#8217;m blogging about making &#8212; and keeping &#8212; resolutions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2009\/12\/26\/new-year-resolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saturday I blogged about why you should make goals and write them down.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2009\/12\/27\/making-resolutions-you-can-keep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunday&#8217;s post was about breaking big goals down into mini goals and rewarding yourself for achieving them.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today it&#8217;s more about the process of making the goals in the first place.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/203908\/how-to-choose-achievable-goals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1367\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/203908\/how-to-choose-achievable-goals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1367 \" title=\"making your list\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/making-your-list.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"158\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When you&#39;re writing down your new year&#39;s goals, they don&#39;t all have to be big and important. What about infusing fun into your new year?<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/203908\/how-to-choose-achievable-goals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lifehacker.com<\/a> writes about setting achievable goals &#8212; and it doesn&#8217;t have to feel so serious<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe post includes four tips for making an attainable list of goals, including this one that I liked a lot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Entertain a mix of ambitious and silly goals.<\/strong> Goals should vary from ambitious (write a book, be financially independent) to silly (consider getting a pet fox, bet $100 on a rock paper scissors match) to novelty-seeking (try a new restaurant every week, go to the opera) to personal (fall madly in love, lose 10 pounds) to world-improving (convert to green energy, give 10% to charity) to educational (learn Italian, read a book a week).<br \/>\nMarking off a few silly or easier goals is a good way to build confidence and momentum for larger more ambitious goals. When you&#8217;ve recently gotten rid of your television and spoken in front of a crowd of fifty, it becomes a hundred times easier to pitch your book idea to a publisher, or call someone about a lease on a space for your new business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes when I&#8217;m making new year&#8217;s resolutions, I get caught up in the enthusiasm of it and either feel I have to do everything &#8212; learn to play piano, learn Spanish, start taking yoga &#8212; or I have to be too lofty &#8212; shouldn&#8217;t we all aspire to cut back on our use of fossil fuels and eat only locally grown free range chemical free foods?<br \/>\nWhy can&#8217;t I also make a goal to have drinks at least once a week with my girlfriends?<br \/>\nOr to add a few new sweaters to my rotation that make me feel better about the long cold winter?<br \/>\nI like the idea of adding fun, silly, novelty-seeking goals into my 2010 mix. Not that I don&#8217;t still want to take a knife skills class, but I also want to try more of the restaurants in our neighborhood and see more live music. I also want to develop a ritual of brunch at a place where we can become regulars.<br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s your mix of resolutions look like? Are you committing to anything fun, silly or novelty seeking?<\/strong><br \/>\nI blogged back in March about declaring what you want in a written goal list \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2009\/03\/15\/decide-what-you-want-and-declare-it-in-no-uncertain-terms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check out that post <\/a>if you haven\u2019t read it before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever stood with your glass of champagne in hand and declared that this year is the one when you&#8217;ll run a marathon, lose 50 pounds or get a great new job? 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