Fashion Career Expert: Maria Pesin

A Surefire Way To Accomplish Your Resolutions! Part II

I spent an hour in my car driving with my fifteen year old daughter talking about goals. I asked her about her goals. She is a on a swim team which she loves. We discussed one of her goals which was to achieve a time of 115 in the 100 meter breaststroke. I asked her what her plan was to accomplish this. She said she would join 2 different swim clubs that ran consecutively so that she would be practicing for several months before swim team started again. Next she was going to work on turns and starts because she knew that was where she lost a lot of time. We also discussed how to compete in a race by listening to her teammates cheering to let her know where she stood in the race. I was very intrigued by how she instinctively new how to accomplish a goal. She also had good reasons for wanting to attain this objective. She wanted not only to be cause she wants the personal victory but because she wanted to help her team.

A Surefire Way To Accomplish Your Resolutions!

It's the beginning of a new year and that always seems like the time to talk about goals. We call them New Years resolutions. And we felt obligated to have them. However a few weeks after New Years they are usually fading till we finally forget about them. I used to write my goals down and found when I read them the next New Years Day that they not only were not accomplished, but they were still my goals. I think after several years of the same resolutions they either must not have been that important or maybe I just hadn't done what I should have done to achieve these objectives. I wondered about this for a long time. Why did I set the same goals each year and not attain them?