Tips For Reviving and Achieving Your Resolutions:

You, as a baby boomer or senior, spent New Year’s Eve making fantastic resolutions. Now, for some reason, you have not kept them. They have fallen by the wayside, at least in part.

Is it too late to revive them in order to achieve your original goals? No, it is never too late to do something right. 

Dictionary.com offers this meaning for the word resolution, “a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.”

Perhaps one of the reasons that you have not followed through on your resolutions has to do with the way you perceive yourself. Maybe you are concerned about narcissism. Do you see yourself as an egotistical narcissist preoccupied with inflating your ego if you succeed? If others see you that way with respect to keeping your New Year’s resolutions, does it matter?

Consider the following tips for reviving and achieving your New Year’s resolutions.

Remind yourself why you originally made your New Year’s Eve resolutions.

The resolutions you made were probably not purely self-oriented, as you may have made them with others you love in mind, like your spouse, children and grandchildren. For example, you made a resolution to quit smoking. You are aware that both you and your family will benefit in terms of health, if you keep your resolution to quit smoking. Maybe you realize you are addicted and have begun to see how difficult it is to quit smoking, but you feel torn because you know how important it is for you to quit. Find some new ways to quit smoking. Perhaps working on one yoga breathing exercise every time you desire nicotine, will be sufficient.   

Determine to stick to your New Year’s resolution regardless of others.

Ask yourself whose resolution this was originally, yours or someone else’s. If it is yours, you can make a new decision to stick to this resolution, regardless of what others think or say. Be aware that they may try to discourage you. For example, you made a New Year’s resolution to lose weight. Your best friend made that resolution with you, but he or she is not determined to keep it, even though you are. Your determination to stick to your New Year’s resolution to lose weight regardless of others, can be your key to success. You may need to find a new best friend who will encourage rather than dissuade you.

Start over again in order to keep your New Year’s resolution, no matter how many times it takes to succeed.

Every day is a new day and you can keep your New Year’s resolution, even if you have only succeeded in part, so far. But you tried, so give yourself a pat on the back, forgive yourself for your non-compliance with your broken New Year’s resolution and start over, as many times as it takes. For example, maybe you have been abusing alcohol in the past and have suffered the loss of health, family or friends because of it. Discouraged, you have fallen back into your old drinking habits. You know that alcohol addiction is a pathway to self-destruction. Make a new resolution to live alcohol free, one day at a time. Remember that substitution of one vice for another is not a good idea. Find a new way to satisfy your craving for alcohol, one that will not cause harm to you or others.

Getting back on track, involves staying on track too, when you are following through on your New Year’s resolutions. Your resolutions do matter and they are important to you. You made them for a reason, so now stick to them, even if it means working at it differently.

Remember that your New Year’s resolutions were goals you set and intended to keep! Achieving your resolutions is your new goal.