5 Important Things to Consider BEFORE You Set Your Goals for 2018

After much trial and error and lots of prayer, I’ve learned that I have to shift 5 components of my approach to change in order to make it last longer than January. Here they are in no particular order:

1. Focusing on my daily goals will keep me going strong.

This is something I have definitely learned the hard way through the years. It’s good to set long term goals, but we can’t achieve them without setting small, short term goals FIRST. Therefore, we must focus on what we can achieve daily. For example, if exercise is our goal, we need to wake up in the morning and make sure we get our exercise in that day; we don’t need to obsess over how much exercise we can get in that week or what the scale says. We need to take it day by day. When we do this, we won’t become overwhelmed or discouraged, and we will have an easier time sticking to our resolutions and making lasting changes.

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