Four Definitive Ways to Break Your Resolution Losing Streak

4) Become A Scribe

This might sound silly, but writing your goal down is a HUGE way to increase the odds of success. In fact, studies show that you have about a 42% GREATER chance of accomplishing your goals if you write them down than if you don’t. You can double your chances just by scribbling the resolution onto paper.

Sound silly? It isn’t. Putting words on a paper makes the goal more real. It is kind of like putting it out into the world, letting a secret out from your deep innards and adding it to the atmosphere. It makes it more real!

We spend so much time trying to suffocate our ambitions. We try to silence our dreams because we don’t want to seem stupid or we don’t want to fail. Writing down a goal and having to look at it is a way of owning your dreams. It is a tangible rallying cry. Naming things brings them out of the shadows and into the light. We can do this be speaking our resolution to others AND by writing them down. We can’t hide from them once they are named, proclaimed, and shared. And as much as we pretend we want to hide from them, we really are dying to be better.

Don’t let the opportunity pass you by.