How To Keep New Year’s Resolutions
Made one or two New Year’s fitness resolutions?
As a matter of fact, your resolution doesn’t even have to be fitness-based.
All that matters is if you made a resolution or not.
Did you?
Of course you did!
And now you’re wondering how the hell you’re going to stick with it and see it through when research suggests that 80 percent of people who make resolutions will fail by the second week of February, with 22 percent ditching theirs just six days into the new year?
Yeah, of course you’re wondering that!
Well, that’s where I come in to tell you that if your resolution is routine-centric, like meditating more or going to the gym, then you might want to try the following.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Buy a wall calendar and lighter.
2) Place the calendar in a visible location that you have no reason not to pass by every day.1e.g. closet or refrigerator door, kitchen counter, bedroom wall, etc.
3) Place the lighter in a visible location close to the calendar.
4) Mark dates and times you’re going to perform your new routine.
5) Tape a $100 bill on the current day’s corresponding date.
6) When the time comes to perform your routine, you can either do it or set the money on fire.
How will this insane technique prevent you from being another New Year’s resolution statistic?
Ummmmm…because if you’re like anyone else, you hate losing money. That’s because we as humans feel the pain of loss twice more powerfully than the satisfaction of gain, which is why the money is being taken away from you for failure to complete the task rather than you paying yourself for its completion. Also, having to burn the money right at the moment prevents procrastination because you can’t hold off the task for completion later, tomorrow, or some other day or time that the task isn’t going to get done on.
If you aren’t ready to do this, then you’ll drop the goal right now. But if you really want it, then put your money where your mouth is. And if you do, you should never have to burn that $100 bill (or other large denomination). That is, unless you’re financially well off!
Glossary: February, fitness, gym
