How to Stick to Your New Years Career Resolutions

How to Stick to Yur New Years Career ResolutionsHow to Stick to Your New Years Career Resolutions The best part of the New Year? We all get a chance to have a do-over. Whatever goals and dreams you have been thinking about over the past year, nows your chance to make those achievements possible over the next twelve months.Looking for a new job? Working toward a promotion ? Planning to ask for a raise ? No matter the career aspiration, we all need a little help and guidance to keep us on track - which is why we spoke with Laura Weldy, life coach at The Well Supported Woman. Based in Nashville, TN, Weldy helps millennial women seeking more confidence, clarity and connection in their daily lives. Heres what she advises for all jobs seekers and workers who want to stick to their New Years resolutions in 2019.Most of us who set New Years resolutions tend to have a few goals that are vague or a little too over the top. If you want to actually see your resolutions through, make sure you think about how realistic your goals are and how you will track the progress you make.For those of us with a full-time job, I love the idea of crafting some resolutions around the progress you desire to make in your career and the lifestyle you want to experience in your downtime, says Weldy.For those work resolutions, Weldy says its important to consider very measurable ones - so focus your resolutions on specific awards, titles, projects or milestones you want to complete or work on this year.One of the hardest parts about situation New Years resolutions is how we treat ourselves when we dont stick to them. Dont worry - youre not alone in this. So many people feel the same way about their resolutions.If you want to get ahead in your career , you cant set resolutions that are going to make you feel bad about yourself. Its hard to avoid this, but it comes down to spending more time thinking about the resolutions you are drumherum and why you are setting the m.This is one of the downsides of the New Years resolution phenomenon - if you didnt achieve your resolutions belastung year (or the year before that) its easy to get discouraged, says Weldy. Your resolutions or goals should never be a source of shame for you - instead, think of them as always changing reflections of what matters to you right now.Working a full-time job or tackling the job hunt is hard work enoughso your resolutions should focus on positive ways to help make the process easier, or to help you achieve your goals.If you set a long list of resolutions where the majority are goals that are going to take a lot of work and add more hours to your workday, youre eventually going to burn out . As a result, find it hard to keep up with everything. Not to mention, you wont be feeling too happy, both about your work ethic and yourselfWeldy encourages us to evaluate our resolutions by asking ourselves Is this truly important to me, or is this something I feel I SHOULD do?In stead, she says to focus on the resolutions that youre really excited about in order to have the most success with your goal setting. If theres a really exciting project you can take ownership of in the New Year, focus on that goal right away.Sometimes when we set our New Years resolutions, we set too many big goals and later find ourselves completely failing at keeping most of them. We start the year excited and make a long list of all the ideas we have and all the things we want to accomplish. Some 50 resolutions later, and we cant even remember half the ones we set for ourselves.I see this all the time with resolutions because I think goal setting and living in that mental space of what could be possible for you is so much fun, notes Weldy. But even more fun than creating a list of 2,000 goals and imagining your dream life is actually LIVING that life. That happens when we prioritize and focus.Weldy recommends keeping your resolution list short with about 3-5 resolutions in tot al.Its hard to stick to your goals on your own - but it doesnt have to be that way. Consider showing your resolutions to your boss and asking them to help keep you accountable for the career goals youre setting in the New Year.If you dont necessarily want your manager to know your resolutions, you can always confide in a co-worker, or even consider working with a personal coach.Find someone to help hold you accountable, and keep your resolutions somewhere where you see them every day, advises Weldy. If you are still struggling with sticking to your resolutions, you may need someone to help you better understand your mode of operating in the world, your motivations and how to maximize your time and energy. Nothing in this world is truly one-size-fits-all - including productivity hacks and tools for goal accomplishment. This is when working with a professional life coach comes in handy.Dont worry - youve got this And if you dont quite reach your goals this year, youll always ha ve a do-over at the end of 2019.