Transform Your Life Self Help Advice
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Written by Ashley Ball
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Be the boss of you. Use success tips from the business world; hold fast to your resolutions for change. Move toward something positive.
When friends who don't know their own social security numbers can recite your "usual" resolutions by rote, it's a sign something's not working. This year we were bound and determined to erase that "Lose 10 pounds" from our repeat-resolution list.
We started with a few surreptitious peeks at self-help in our local Barnes & Noble, but it seemed so sappy. Our goal demanded a dignified, businesslike treatment: We're the manager of this operation. How do we make it work for us?
Our searches for hard-nosed advice led us to the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies tips on performance management. Applied to our personal resolutions, they read like this: - Don't overload on resolutions. Make one or two.
- Set realistic goals.
View the resolution as a chance to try new things: resolve to start doing something, not to quit doing something. - Examine what stopped you from success in the past and work toward eliminating that block.
- Make sure you are personally motivated. Don't internalize suggestions from others; make your goal something you've been wanting to achieve for some time.
- In case of a lapse, don't scrap the whole plan. Start anew the next day, and chalk it up to being human.
Good advice. And if they work, we resolve to give ourselves a raise and take a paid vacation.
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