Why You Should Make A ‘New Week’ Resolution

Instead of putting all of the pressure of the year on your resolutions, make it a weekly task of betterment. This way, you can focus on your goals for the week and take it one day at a time. You still get to focus on your goals for the year, but by breaking them down into weekly tasks. This will also help you avoid quitting, which, according to Better Help, is a common occurrence, with only 36% of people making it past the first month of January, compared to 9% who successfully keep their resolutions throughout the year.

A ‘New Week’ Resolution is more realistic, because each week will be different, as well as each day. When you try to maintain goals for the entire year, there’s bound to be obstacles that distract, deter, and disintegrate your plan. However, all is not lost. Try out this suggestion of weekly resolutions, and see if your results are greater.

A weekly schedule allows you to see exactly what’s ahead, without overwhelming you. You can prepare for each day and boost your productivity. When things are organized, life seems to flow better. Although you can’t plan everything, this at least gives you a path to start from. A proactive approach reduces stress, offers more flexibility, and makes life a little easier.

A physical calendar allows you to prioritize tasks and prepare you for what’s to come. You can also exercise time management, and something about physically writing things down and seeing it makes it real. The calendar is a clear roadmap providing you with everything you need to manage the week. You can get creative and color coat appointments, meetings, lunch, and break (which are essential).

Preparing for Monday weekly should have its own personal day, but then you incorporate family, friends, cooking, cleaning, trying to rest, hopefully resetting, and if you’re lucky, some time alone, and it’s as if the weekend never existed. A weekly resolution allows you to mentally digest all that is to come. And life throws tomatoes in your plans sometimes, but at least it’s not all at once.

The downside of New Year’s Resolutions is the insane amount of pressure we put on ourselves because of the unrealistic goals we set forth. The most popular resolution is exercising or going to the gym more, but going from zero to seven days a week is an unrealistic approach. With a weekly resolution, you can start with twice a week and gradually add days. There’s no pressure with starting small, because when you don’t live up to huge expectations, disappointment settles in, and who wants to start the year off disappointed? No one!