 Hi guys! This is Linda from Brain Education TV. If this is your first time, welcome! Please consider subscribing, like this video, and click the bell for notifications of each new episode. In this video, I'm going to be talking about five tips to set yourself up to succeed in your New Year's resolutions. Statistics show that 60% of us make New Year's resolutions every year. And unfortunately, by the start of February, 80% of them have already failed at keeping up with their New Year's resolution. And an even sadder result, only 8% still standing make it to the end of the year by achieving their resolutions. So what's the difference between people who succeed in their New Year's resolution versus people who fail? Tip for succeeding in your New Year's resolution, number one. What do you want? The most important thing to ask yourself when you set your New Year's resolution and actually any goal in your life is you have to be clear on what is it that you want. So when you think about this upcoming year, and you can paint whatever picture you want for this upcoming year, what is it that you want to achieve in the upcoming year? It can be anything related to your physical body, anything related to your emotional body, it can be related to your spiritual, mental body, anything is okay. But first, become clear on what is it that you want. And if you find that it's difficult to answer that question, what is it that I want because it's so big and broad, then think of it in this way. So imagine yourself at the end in December of the next upcoming year. So when you imagine yourself sitting down on a lounge chair looking back on your year, what would you have achieved for you to be able to say, ah, I had a good year? So it takes a little bit of imagination. Imagine you're already at the end of this next upcoming year and you're just sitting down and you're looking back on the year that you've had so far. What would you have seen yourself achieve throughout the year for you to feel in your heart? Yes, I had a great year. So maybe that's a better question for you to kind of think about what do I want? That's tip number one. You have to be clear. You have to know exactly what is it that you want because that is your guiding compass. That is your roadmap on which direction you should take your life in this next year. Tip number two, be realistic. This is very important because if you're not realistic, you're already setting yourself up to fail. So let's say, for example, like you have this crazy goal with like crazy big dreams and just this last year you only did this much, but now in the next year you're trying to achieve this much. That probably isn't realistic because if you do projects, it needs steps to become a big thing. So without the tiny steps to get to that big thing, you dreaming from this to this is probably not realistic. They say dream big and I really do support dreaming big, but you have to stay realistic for you to set yourself up for success. Yes, dreams are important. Yes, I support dreams, but we always have to keep in mind our current reality. Because no matter how great your dreams are, you have to figure out how to make this happen in your current condition in your reality. That's very important. Tip number three, pick numbers. Numbers are a very concrete way to measure your growth and they're very concrete and cool to have. So let's say, for example, you have a dream of creating an album this year, a music CD album. Then instead of just having a goal of I'm going to make some album by the end of the year, we'll see how it goes. I'm not really sure. Instead of doing this, if you have a set number of how many tracks, how many songs you want to include in that album, then it gives you a framework of what to work with. So let's say that you pick, I want to make a 12 track album, then that 12 is a number that is concrete that you can measure your growth in that year. So it's always very important to have a number that number actually grounds you in reality. As I mentioned in the other tip, having a number is how you stay connected to reality. And it's how you can check your growth as you go. And it's how you can set a definite end goal. So there's a definite start and a finish for your brain to work well in between the start and finish line. If there's no clear finish with a clear number goal, whatever your goal is, then your brain gets scattered and all over the place and it doesn't know which direction to go. So numbers are very important. Always pick numbers in your goal. Tip number four, speaking of numbers, now that you have set a number for the end of the year, when you have that number, then you can know how to scientifically, mathematically break it down so that this will be achieved by the end of the year. So let's use my example that I said in the previous point. Let's say I'm making a music album and I'm making a 12 track music album. When I have that number 12, now I know, okay, there are 12 months of the year. So I know that mathematically, scientifically, I have to do one track, one song per month for me to make 12. So like this, break it down. Once you have that number, now break it down to the number of months. And then from the months, you can break it down into six months and then three months and then one month and then one week like this. Start from big, start from the big number. Divide it up into the smaller number of days, number of weeks, number of months for you to get a formula in which you mathematically, not conceptually, mathematically can see, start to finish in a very calculated way, calculated, methodical way. This will give you a little system for you to work with so that your mind is not scattered all over the place. It gives you a timeline and a clear roadmap of how to break down your goal so that with each step by the end, there is absolutely no doubt because this is a mathematical thing that you will have achieved your goal by the end. So from the point above with that big yearly number, now break it down to the number of months, number of weeks, number of days. You can even break it up into a six month chunk, a three month chunk and then one month, weeks, days, hours, minutes if you want to get that small. So start big and then break it down. And last one, tip number five, probably the most important one is encourage yourself. Every step of the way, even though you see some failures, even though it's so hard to stay on tasks, stay on calendar and it's so easy to procrastinate. Please, please, please encourage yourself through all of it. When you encourage yourself, you feel more motivated to keep going. Don't you even at school or even in your life in general, when people encourage you and say it's okay, keep going, I believe in you. Don't you feel more motivation to do the stuff that you're supposed to do rather than if they say there you go again, you messed up. I knew you couldn't do it. I don't believe in you. If someone talks like this, don't you feel absolutely no motivation to continue like why do you even try? Same thing for your internal dialogue too. You have to keep encouraging yourself. This is the most important thing. Keep encouraging yourself every step of the way. And know that even if you fail, that's okay. The biggest failure is you giving up. Small accidents and small failures, small mis-deadlines are okay as long as you don't give up and keep walking, keep walking. And it's much easier to keep walking when you encourage yourself with words of love and respect. So those are my top five tips on how to stick to your New Year's resolutions. What did you guys think about the tips that I shared? I would like to know in the comments below. Maybe you have some awesome tips that have helped you stick to your own New Year's resolutions. I would love to hear them. So whatever you guys have to say, let me know in the comments below. I'd also like to hear what your New Year's resolutions are if you have them for next year. Thanks so much everyone. I hope you guys stay healthy, happy, safe and abundant in this new upcoming year. See you in another video. Bye.