Posts Tagged ‘resolution’

How to Write a Personal Mission Statement to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever

“Your actions are your only possessions.”
- Lao Tse

This is an excellent personal development statement to ponder as we watch 2007 dissolve into dust. Most of you made personal, one sentence resolutions like “I want to lose weight” or “I vow to go back to school.” It is a tradition to start the New Year with things you want to achieve, but under the influence resolutions are often unrealistic.

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January 10 2008 | By AJ | Tagged: goal setting, motivation, new_year, personal_mission_statement, resolution, value | 15 comments»

Do You Want 2008 to Be Your Best Year Ever? Let Go.

Try making a single change in your outlook

Regular readers will know that I am not much attracted to the type of article that can be summarized as “x simple ways to do y.” I distrust overly simple responses to life’s endless complexity, just as I distrust simplistic ways of thinking.

However, I can think of one — just one — simple action that will make 2008 perhaps one of your… » Continue

January 9 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: balance, guilt, resentment, resolution, revenge | 27 comments»

6 Guilt-Free Steps To Review Your New Year Resolutions

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The end of the year is always a good time for me to review my resolutions and take stock of what I have done over the past year.

However, for some people, reviewing New Year resolutions can be a painful affair. Some of you may have goals unaccomplished. A resolution review is just a stark reminder of how little you have achieved… » Continue

December 28 2007 | By Lawrence | Tagged: goal, new_year, resolution, review | 15 comments»

8 Ways to Achieve Success in 2008

I don’t believe in resolutions. The idea that a trick of the calendar should be the driving force for real change in my life seems silly. And yet, there’s no denying that a year is a good block of time to think with — long enough to carry out big projects and short enough to keep the end-goal in sight. Plus, a year is a good block of… » Continue

December 26 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: commitment, goal, motivation, resolution, success | 22 comments»

How to Sell Yourself on Lifestyle Change

It’s coming up on that time of year again. You know, the time where you seriously commit to the same resolution that you seriously committed to last year… before life got in the way and it evaporated into thin air.

Depending on who you ask, up to 85% percent of all New Year’s resolutions involved some element of lifestyle change, be it weight loss, exercise, better nutrition, improved life-balance or… » Continue

December 26 2007 | By Jonathan | Tagged: change, motivation, planning, resolution, selling, success, weightloss | 19 comments»

How are you doing with your New Year’s Resolution?

The first month of 2007 is almost over. If you have set some new year’s resolutions in the beginning of this year, how are your progress? Do you need any realignment of goals to make you back on-track?

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What do you want to know? Submit a poll idea to tips at lifehack.org!… » Continue

January 25 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: goal, resolution | no comments»

15 Popular 2007 Resolutions

Since today is the 1st day of 2007, I’ve surfed to 43things to find out what are people’s resolutions for 2007. All I can say it is quite interesting. Take a look:

1. lose weight 16909 people
2. stop procrastinating 13499 people
3. Fall in love 11402 people
4. be happy 10164 people
5. Get a tattoo 8937 people… » Continue

January 1 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: planning, resolution | 4 comments»

Advice for students: New year’s resolutions

People in academic life, teachers and students alike, get a curious bonus — while everyone else trudges from January to December, we have a chance to begin anew with each semester, term, or quarter. In a wonderful passage from his autobiographyThe Seven Storey Mountain (1948), Thomas Merton evokes the feeling of possibility on a college campus when everything is about to begin again:October is a fine and dangerous season in… » Continue

August 18 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: resolution, study | no comments»

How To Make Resolutions You’ll Keep

Too many resolutions barely last through January. Here’s how to make plnas for 2006 you’ll be certain to keep. » Continue

January 2 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: action, article, career, commitment, failure, happiness, health, learning, Lifehack, motivation, personal, planning, resolution | 2 comments»

Don’t Celebrate Stressmas

Christmas is a wonderful time of year to practice forgiveness, and especially to forgive yourself. Walk into the New Year with an open mind and a hopeful attitude. Let go of all the baggage you’re carrying. Don’t ever be tempted to feel guilty about your emotions, let alone accept responsibility for anyone else’s. » Continue

December 19 2005 | By Adrian | Tagged: balance, family, happiness, holiday, life, Lifehack, personal, relationship, relaxation, resolution, work-life, worrying | 4 comments»

Determine The Root Cause: 5 Whys

iSixSigma introduced a good method on finding the root cause of a problem by using 5 why. By repeatedly asking the question “Why” on an issue, you can dig into the root of the cause of a problem. Another good benefit of using this method is that you can determine the relationship between different root causes of a problem. Here is one good example of using 5 Whys:

Problem Statement: Customers… » Continue

September 19 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: problem, resolution | 4 comments»