This blog is for all those people who are trying to set goals, trying to keep the New Year’s Resolutions they made, trying to make positive changes in their lives.

The biggest key to successfully achieving our goals is that we have to be committed.  Psychologists say that resolutions are only successful if the person making them is committed to change.  People who have succeeded at accomplishing their goal, reached a place in their life where they’ve said: “Enough is enough.  I’m not going to put up with this any more and I’m going to do whatever it takes to get what I want – no matter what!”

Think through what you want to change and commit yourself to the long-term process it usually takes to achieve change.  Recognize tht you didn’t get the way you are overnight and you aren’t going to eliminate the results overnight either.  It is going to take steady, day in and day out commitment.

Write down all of the reasons why you want to change.  What is happening – or not happening in your life that you don’t like – because of this problem?  Get as detailed as you can.  Write down all the ways your life will improve as you start achieving your goal.

At the same time, you need to write down what you are getting by doing whatever it is that you want to change.  This is probably one of the most important steps you can take.  There are always pay-offs for the things that we do, even negative things – or we wouldn’t do them.

In the next blog, I am going to demonstrate this idea of pay-offs by using the goal of losing weight as an example.  Until then, start writing your lists.  If you aren’t committed enough to write down the reasons why you are doing – and not doing- what you want to change, you will never be committed enough to change.