My Forsyth_March 2021

Don’t Waste Your
Time on Resolutions!
By Christine Roberts
I DO NOT BELIEVE IN RESOLUTIONS.
I do believe in:
• evaluating our lives,
• determining where we want to improve,
• thinking about why, what end result I am
looking for, and
• reverse engineering how to make it happen.
If you start the setting a lot of unrealistic
expectations without thinking things
through, that’s why your resolutions
don’t last through January.
You can end up in a worse place than where you
started when you beat yourself up over it, and
feel defeated and that’s the end of it.
Does this sound familiar? Do you know
anyone who does this? Or is this you?
Well, if it’s you, try not to feel bad. That is a
waste of time.
Treat yourself as a cherished friend, so
when you have that internal dialogue going in
your head, speak kind words.
I have worked in the personal growth industry
with Disney Institute, The John Maxwell Company
and have been a student of human behavior practically
my whole life. I am fascinated by what we as humans
do and why we do it so I’m constantly paying attention
to others and especially to my own behavior.
Every New Year, I start a process of
reflecting and evaluating the previous year
and then determine what I want to achieve in
the upcoming year. Then I constantly check in
throughout the year to see how I’m doing.
This is an ongoing process of trying to be
better today than I was yesterday...therefore
NO resolutions. I hope that when you think of
yourself, that thinking provides a sigh of relief.
Here are the steps that work for me;
give them a try.
• Plan a specific time to go and think – do
this as early as possible. It's never a bad time
bad time to map out our lives.
• Have a systematic way to evaluate where
you are and where you want to go. I use the
Create Your Best Life Wheel as a quick gauge.
• Determine what areas you want to focus
on and WHY. Think about what outcomes
you would like, then back into specific
actions that will get you there.
• Document it! When you document it, your
chances of achieving are increased
dramatically, so write it down.
• Now go make it happen! (You can download
the Create Your Best Life Wheel at
www.christinemroberts.com/CYBLGuide )
Most people put more effort into
planning a vacation than they do
planning their lives.
Just do it! Don’t overthink things and make it a
priority.
There is that saying, “No one plans to fail,
they just fail to plan.” Or another one I love
is from Yogi Berra: “If you don’t know where
you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
So true, huh?
One thing we will not get back is time. We
must live intentionally, so when we are lying
on our deathbed, we can look back and
know we did the best we could with the life
we had. Maybe that’s morbid, but it’s the
truth, right??
Make 2021 the most intentional year ever
starting now with the Create Your Best Life
Wheel. Visit: www.christinemroberts.com/
CYBLGuide and check it out.
Would love to hear from you, leave a comment or connect on FB and Instagram
@ ChristineMRoberts10 and/or LI @ Christine-M-Roberts with your thoughts, or
visit ChristineMRoberts.com
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