New Year's Resolutions Made Practical: Basic Principles that Will Assist You in Achieving Your 2024 Goals.
- Danelle Venter
- Jan 31, 2024
- 3 min read
In this post you will learn principles that will assist you in achieving your goals such as:
Make your goals visible.
Make markers to map your progress.
Invite a friend.
In this the final post in our series: New Year’s Resolutions Made Practical, we will look at principles that will help you achieve your goals in 2024. Before we jump into these principles, I first want to invite you to a celebration. If you are reading this post, and are still working on your New Years Resolutions, even if you took the very smallest step possible, congratulations! To all the victory-dancers, now is the time to boogey. If you are reading this post and you haven’t started (or even quit your goals) take heart my friend, today is as good a day to start as the 1st of January.
During this series, you have learnt the importance of specificity when creating your goals and fitting them into your life, how basic principles such as ‘getting the reps in’ and daily devotion can be instrumental in achieving your goals, and what to principles to avoid. This week we will focus on principles that will assist you in making 2024 a year of achievement.
Make your goals visible.
The first principle is to make your goals visible. I love films, I enjoy watching them, the anticipation of waiting for them to come out. I also love the behind-the-scenes footage. If, like me, you have watched the behind-the-scenes, you most likely will have seen a team standing in front of a board with rough sketches of the scenes – a storyboard. Storyboarding is an integral part of filmmaking because it breaks the script into a visual narrative, a blueprint if you will. Like filmmakers, make a storyboard of your goals. Make them visible. If, for example, you want to learn to play the piano, have pictures of a piano wherever you move, circle the times you will practice on your calendar, create a visual narrative of what you will need to achieve this goal. If you have a keyboard, place that keyboard in an easy-to-reach place where you see it every day.
Like filmmakers, make a storyboard of your goals.
Make markers to map your progress.
The next principle is to have clear markers to map your progress. My brother did endurance riding; long-distance racing on horseback. One of the chief compliments or complaints any of the athletes had, had been about the route markers. I have listened to my brothers when he had lost time because he got lost. I have also listened to the joy he expressed when the route had been easy to follow. In your journey to completing your goal, have very clear markers to indicate that you are on the right track. These markers can be daily, weekly, or monthly goals that build toward achieving your resolution. (In my personal fitness goal for 2024, one of my markers is to complete 4 workouts every week.) Know and plot the various components that you will need to complete your goal, take time to highlight the challenges that will hinder you and think of ways you can overcome them. Pause at each marker as you pass them, evaluate if you need to adapt your plan and, if necessary, do so. Celebrate each marker you pass.
Celebrate each marker you pass.
Invite a friend.
The final principle of this series is community. God created us to be part of a community, when we carry each other’s burdens, we fulfil Christ’s law (Gal 6:2). Invite a friend on your journey, find ways to support them in achieving their goal and ask them to help you. The proverb: many hands make light work applies here. With a friend alongside you, achieving your goals will feel less like a list of tasks to complete and more like experiences to be shared and stories to be told.
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How can you make you goals more visible?
What markers do you need to add to indicate your progress? How can you celebrate each marker you pass?
Who can you invite along your journey? How can you help them achieve their goals, and how can they help you?
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