Its new year’s day people are excited and they think this is the year that that I am going to do that thing I have been putting off for years. On the 1^st of January you are off, you have done something you have not done, you have actually started but by the time you get to the end of the year you would have long given up  on losing weight or working towards starting your business . A lot of people get to the end of the year and they tell themselves that they have failed because they have not accomplished what they set themselves to do that year. However most people do not realise that most new year’s resolutions fail not because the people who have made them are not really committed to them (Of course this is the case for a lot of them) but fail because they are just unrealistic . I remember talking to young man who wanted to set up his own business and he told me that he thought his business idea could make him a millionaire within three months of trading; he talked about how many shops he would open in the country in the first month of trading. Here is a kid with a big dream but with no capital. Where he was and what he wanted to achieve where just too far apart. This is what a lot of us do every year, wanting to do and achieve a lot of things at the same time.

If you want to make 2017 the year you actually accomplished your new year’s resolution I suggest that you make it realistic. Look at the goal you want to achieve at the end of the year or the next few years then cut it down  into smaller segments. If you want to lose weight for example, don’t say I will never eat cake again when you eat cake 5 days a week, instead start eating cake two days a week and take it from there. Don’t say I will be running 5 miles a day when the last time you went running was 10 year ago, instead go running round the block and build that way. This way you will able to fill how much you are progressing through the months and this will drive you to carry on with your goals and achieve more. Remember a house is built brick by brick; you only need to take small actions everyday. If you are not where you wish to be by the end of the year, just make another new year’s resolution to continue taking those small actions. Snall actions equal progress and progress equals Happiness