What do you do every 1st of the year? You make new years resolutions, goals, and you tell yourself what your going to change in the year and everything is all hyped up right? But what happens two weeks later? Not only are you not sticking to your goals and resolutions, but I bet you can hardly remember what they even were. Have you ever decided to go on a diet? Maybe you’ve even started going to the gym. Again, what happens? Next thing you know your paying monthly fees to a place you signed up with that you don’t even attend anymore. For some strange reason making “Goals” aren’t exactly taken serious as much as they should all of the time. Most of the time it’s because we overwhelm ourselves when we make goals, especially unrealistic goals.

So what’s the solution? Well, what’s the problem first? The problem is that our minds sometimes don’t take goals serious. However, some people who are very self disciplined can achieve the goals they set, only because they are very self disciplined. Unfortunately the majority of people today are not as self disciplined as they should be. So the majority are actually going to have to go a little further than setting “goals”.

The best way to accomplish something, is to make a “Promise” that you are going to do it. Think about it, you tell someone in your family, that you promise you are going to do something, and they hold you to it. You will go out your way to make sure that you actually do what you said you were going to do. If you didn’t fulfill that promise you made you would definitely not feel very good as opposed to some goal that you made that you really weren’t committed to doing. With promises, they are commitments, so you actually stick to them a 100% more than you would a “goal”.

So don’t make it a goal to complete something, make it a promise. Besides you also put more faith into a promise rather than a goal. Promises are definite, goals are based on hope.