What is a New Year resolution? Why do we make them? To me a New Year resolution is a Goal I wish to make, motivated by the coming of a New Year and the end of an old. Almost giving me permission to let go of the past and motivate me to look towards the future.

This is what makes New Year resolutions fantastic, where they fall down is that they are often made on a spur of the moment or in a drunken embrace with a friend! Surely the coming of a New Year and the end of an old requires more respect than this? By understanding, respecting and treating a New Year resolution as a goal we start on our first step towards achieving them.

Make New Year Resolutions-AND KEEP THEM USING NLP! is an extract from Psychobabble: A strait forward, plain English guide to the Benefits of NLP, showing chapters 5: Goals and well formed Outcomes and Chapter 8: Submodalities, that is the importance of making well formed outcomes and then actually visualising that they have achieved them in the present day, seeing the benefits of the goal in its entirety, making it more “realistic” and desirable to boost motivation to achieve it. The addition benefit of this is to highlight any incongruence in you and the goal that would arise preventing you from achieving it.