New Year’s Resolution Scrapbook
by Rather than writing your resolutions on a scrap of paper that can get lost, try creating a page for each resolution.
The year is coming to a close and a new year will soon begin. New Year’s resolutions can help you to make changes in your life. This only holds, however, if you follow your resolutions. Are you going to make a New Year’s resolution list once again only to put it in some drawer or give up on it after a few weeks?
Too many times I make resolutions for the new year with the best intentions. Then, for one reason or another, I don’t follow through with my resolutions. Whether it is stress, job requirements, family issues, or not knowing where to start, my resolutions either get placed in a drawer or worse, tossed in the trash.
Last year, however, I changed my focus. My resolutions were changed to goals; what did I actually want to accomplish within the year. Then, I followed a suggestion I found in some magazine I had paged through. I began a New Year’s Resolution Scrapbook.
I limited my goals to five; anything more can be too overwhelming. Then, for each goal, I put together a scrapbook. Although I used an actual scrapbook from a craft store, other options include a blank book or spiral notebook that is dedicated to your yearly goals. I created a page for each goal using pictures from magazines or printed from the internet and words that I found in the magazines or I printed them out.
Yes, I was still able to sit it aside to collect dust, but its visible presence kept gnawing at me. Take me out and look at me. Are you accomplishing your goals?
As I look at the goals for this year, I find that I still need to work on some of them; ok, all of them. I was still able to create the pages and put my goals on a shelf and stray from what I wanted to accomplish.
This year I am taking my scrapbook two steps further. First, I am going to take the page for each goal and post it on the wall by my desk in my office. This way I am always aware that there are things I wish to accomplish withing a year. Second, I plan to take some time on the last day of each month and evaluate what I have done to get closer to accomplishing my goals.
Hopefully, by the end of the year, I will have made progress on my goals.
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