In this second part of this blog about New Year resolutions I will discuss how to plan resolutions according to the SMART technique. SMART is used in organizational psychology to create attainable goals and work towards achieving these goals.
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Many of us do New Year resolutions. However do we keep them? Research suggests that fewer than 10% manage to keep resolutions for more than a few months. It seems that the main reason these fail is that we set
Christmas time. I find it to be the best time of the year. I do not wish to impose, because I am aware that Christmas signifies many things to many different people. Whilst for me, this period of the year
Following up on my previous blog related to New Year’s Resolutions, I wanted to expand on the previous points:
Be mindful of the reason why you would like to change a specific
As each new year approaches many decide to attempt to start new positive behaviours in order to replace ones which are less functional. Many have goals which tend to be the exact opposite of their current behaviour. An example would
Tis the season to be jolly… but is everyone this jolly or happy during the holidays? There’s many reasons why someone would find themselves alone, or lonely, during this period of time. Be it because they do not get along
Three of the last themes which obtained 3 % each were power, health and beauty. One dreamer wrote that s/he would like ‘to be the next black president or prince’ which brings about a strong message. This is because
Looking at another interesting theme, money , 10%, many dreamers specified what they would want to do with such money like ‘own a Ferrari’ or ‘have a house of my own’. One interesting dream stated that it seems that
As regards to the life theme, these dreams were of particular interest as some were not completely in the individuals control like ‘never die’ and even ‘ world peace’. However, others concentrated more on remaining free from the system and
This summer, during two major music festivals, the Willingness team set up a tent which was called “Chat Bar“ the idea being to create a safe space for anyone to feel free to talk and lay back from all that
