Happy New Year

*In advance

I wish you all a very Happy New to you and yours!

Goals & After New Year Discussion

Hey guys, so how was your New Year party? Enjoyed? Are you still in the after-party

mood, having a hangover with your dancing shoes still on? Or are you all charged up

and getting for 2020? I'm sure most of you have started planning ahead and made some awesome resolutions, the same way you did in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and so on. Getting a flashback of your memories of your goals, right? Probably things like I want to lose weight, learn English and become fluent in it, go for a trek and so many more things and I'm sure you have planned everything in the right spirit and you had before and you had good intentions of achieving them but somehow you lost your track and the resolutions failed. Do you want to repeat that this year as well? Even in 2020, the same story is going to repeat and I'm sure that you're going to fail in achieving your resolutions and you know why? Because unknowingly you're making some very common mistakes which a lot of people make while they plan their resolutions. Today I'm going to talk to you about the most common tradition that comes with every New Year, yes resolutions guys you must have seen so many videos out there telling us about resolutions and motivating us towards them. Then we prepare a long list of resolutions, yet, we (always) fail. By January end we have given up on them and by June we have forgotten about them. But how about reverse engineering our learning process. Let us learn why our resolutions fail instead and then learn how to fix this problem in a smart way. Let's begin, so guys water resolutions first and foremost? Resolutions are nothing but goal settings. They're firm decisions or promises to yourself to do or not to do something. We usually have resolutions which like goals, for instance, this year I would take a road trip and we also have resolutions which fall in the not to do something category like a bad habit, for instance, this year I will quit smoking. Now guys no matter which type of resolution we promise, the problem we are dealing with is why they fail. Let's see why they fail and how we can fix it. One of the major problems is that people fail because they are not able to prioritize their resolutions and ‘they want it all and they want it now’ do you agree with me? Okay, so quickly grab a pen and a notepad for this, list down all your resolutions pointwise on the paper, right? So you'll have points like losing weight, buying a laptop, buying an iPhone, cutting down on junk food, yeah? Eating healthy, taking a road trip, etc. Now, in front of each point just mark your degree of priority: there are four degrees, ‘urgent, high, medium and low’. When you start making these, you will consider the urgent-most priority to be the one which is basically the need of the hour. Which if you do not do, there are more losses in the coming future. Now, for example, let's say I'm a graphic designer and my laptop has started to give me trouble, so what would be my urgent-most priority? That would be buying a laptop. I can still survive with my current phone for basic necessities and purposes. So I can mark the iPhone as a medium priority, then cutting down on junk food as urgent. My road trip can just go to low priority for now. Now my priorities are clear, now I can pick the urgent and high priority ones and start working on them!