Making up your mind

 

My kids asked me the other day if I had any New Year’s Resolutions and I quickly said, "No, If I want to change something, why would I wait until the beginning of the year to start? I can make a decision to change at any time of the year." After I said it, though I thought to myself, Lori, you are blowing a good learning opportunity here for your kids. So I sat down with both of them, ages 6 and 9, and started talking about resolutions and why people have them. I know that for some people, it might take a whole year to build up the courage to make a change and for others it is just talk. Not because they don't want to change, but rather because they don't know how or they don't have the support necessary to keep it going.

 

We discussed how a resolution is really making your mind up to create a goal and get started on it. Most people however, really don't know how to set a goal or take the steps to make it achievable. It isn't something that is drilled into our heads in school most of the time. As an athlete though, I was fortunate enough to have learned goal setting and achievement repeatedly with my teams. My kids asked more about goals so I found a website that had some great information for me to use with them and thought I would share it with you.

 

Although setting a goal is the first step towards achieving it, it is important to remember that to have success the goal has to be treated as a process-not an event. It you can remember that it is something that will take time and continually need to be tweaked and supported then your odds of success increase greatly.