New Year’s Resolutions

With Christmas out of the way and the New Year around the corner, how many of you are eagerly waiting to start the New Year? Have you prepared any New Year’s resolutions for 2016 yet? Are you wanting to spend more time with your family and friends? To get fit? To learn something new? Whatever your New Year’s resolutions are, there are millions of us out there who will break them within the first week of January. So how can you make sure you stick to your New Year’s resolutions?

So many New Year’s resolutions are quickly broken year after year simply because they are made on a whim without much thought or planning. In order to be more successful with your New Year’s resolution you need to evaluate your circumstances first to make sure your goal is realistic and viable. Take time out to do these things when you can rather than putting pressure on yourself because otherwise you will more than likely fail and break your resolution. By establishing little steps to help achieve your New Year’s resolution, you will help yourself reach your goal and you will be feel a lot better and more in control.

New Year’s resolutions are not always personal. How about a New Year’s resolution for your business? January is a great time to re-evaluate your business and set new goals for the year ahead. Do you want to reach more potential customers? Do you want to expand online or offline? Do you want to motivate your staff to be more productive? Whatever your goal is, like personal New Year’s resolutions, the majority of business resolutions fail within the beginning of the year. Again, this is often due to the resolution not being well thought and planned. It is also important to not make too many resolutions and make sure the one you do make is most importantly, realistic!

Whether you are making New Year’s resolutions for yourself personally or for your business, the main tool you need for the success of these is focus. Work out what your main goal for 2016 is and how you can focus on achieving it. Results may not be immediate and your goal may not come to fruition until later in the year, but as long as you are proactively focused on that goal from now until then, you’re setting yourself up for success. Do not quit your resolution if it is not going to plan, work out what has gone wrong and how you are going to fix it to get back on track – re-evaluate your goal and re-focus.

At Post and Packing we would like to wish you all the best with your New Year and the resolutions that come with it.