Tips for keeping resolutions
7 tips to keep your New Year’s resolution
Making New Year’s resolutions is a yearly tradition for many people. Yet, some of us fall short of reaching our goals.
Below are seven tips to help you make and stick to your New Year’s resolutions. By following these suggestions, UC Davis Health experts say you can set yourself up for success.
1. Be picky about your resolutions
We may want to lose weight, eat more vegetables, volunteer more, quit smoking and spend more time with family. But experts say that’s too many goals to set for a New Year’s resolution. Pick one, maybe two things you’d like to focus on and go all in. This sets you up to achieve specific goals instead of feeling like a failure for hitting none of them.
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2. Plan your resolution
It’s best to plan for your goal. Think through how you want to accomplish your resolution and how long it might take to reach your goal. For example, if your resolution is to quit smoking, research how long it takes an average person to kick the habit and the possible setbacks to expect. Proper planning will help ensure you can see it through to the end.
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3. Set very specific goals
Many of us will set a New Year’s resolution like “exercise more.” But what does that really mean? Instead, you should be detailed in your resolution. It could be “exercise 30 minutes daily.” This gives you a measurable goal to reach each day that you can check off your list. It will help you feel more accomplished.
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4. Don’t take on too much
Start small. Avoid setting an overly high expectation of yourself. If you’d like to lose weight, pick a small but realistic weight loss goal. Maybe that’s 10 pounds in two months. Once you reach that goal, you can think about losing another 5-8 pounds. Setting small goals can help you achieve big results.
5. Choose a new resolution
Avoid picking a goal that you’ve tried in the past but failed.
You may set yourself up to fall into the same pitfalls that stopped you previously. Instead, pick something different where you can set up a better path to success. Or maybe you can modify a previous goal if that’s something you still want to accomplish.
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6. Identify accountability partners for support
Lean on people – whether it’s a friend to keep your exercise resolution on track, or a spouse to help with healthier eating habits. We function better with community around us, motivating and reminding us why we chose that New Year’s resolution in the first place.
7. Give your resolution time to become a habit
New routines don’t just become habit overnight. A 2009 study found that on average, it takes 66 days to form a new habit. Be patient with yourself. If you have minor setbacks or don’t hit your goal one week, pick it back up the next week. Just keep working at your goal and eventually it can become second nature.
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UC Davis Health classes to help you accomplish your New Year’s resolution
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by: Louise Smith
Chances are at some time in your life, you’ve made a New Year’s resolution — and then broken it.
This year, stop the cycle of resolving to make change and then not following through. If your resolution is to take better care of yourself and get healthy, you will have a much better year if your resolution sticks. Here are ten tips to help you get started.
1. Be Realistic
The surest way to fall short of your goal is to make your goal unattainable. For instance, resolving to NEVER eat your favorite food again is setting you up to fail. Instead, strive for a goal that is attainable, such as avoiding it more often than you do now.
2. Plan Ahead
Don’t make your resolution on New Year’s Eve. If you wait until the last minute, it will be based on your mindset that particular day. Instead, it should be planned well before December 31st arrives.
3. Outline Your Plan
Decide how you will deal with the temptation to skip that exercise class or have that piece of cake. This could include calling on a friend for help, practicing positive thinking and self-talk, or reminding yourself how your “bad behavior” will affect your goal.
4. Make a “Pros” and “Cons” List
It may help to see a list of items on paper to keep your motivation strong. Develop this list over time, and ask others to contribute to it. Keep your list with you and refer to it when you need help keeping your resolve.
5. Talk About It
Don’t keep your resolution a secret. Tell friends and family members who will be there to support your resolve to change yourself for the better or improve your health. The best-case scenario is to find a buddy who shares your New Year’s resolution and motivate each other.
6. Reward Yourself
This doesn’t mean that you can eat an entire box of chocolates if your resolution is to eat a better diet. Instead, celebrate your success by treating yourself to something you enjoy that doesn’t contradict your resolution. If you have been sticking to your promise to eat better, for example, reward yourself with new fitness clothing or by going to a movie with a friend.
7. Track Your Progress
Keep track of each small success.
Short-term goals are easier to keep, and each small accomplishment will help keep you motivated. Instead of focusing on losing 30 pounds, focus on losing the first five. Keep a food journal to help you stay on track, and reward yourself for each five pounds lost.
8. Don’t Beat Yourself Up
Obsessing over the occasional slip won’t help you achieve your goal. Do the best you can each day, and take one day at a time.
9. Stick to It
Experts say it takes about 21 days for a new activity to become a habit and six months for it to become part of your personality. It won’t happen overnight, so be persistent and patient!
10. Keep Trying
If you have totally run out of steam when it comes to keeping your resolution by mid-February, don’t despair. Start over again! Recommit yourself for 24 hours. You can do anything for 24 hours. The 24-hour increments will soon build on each other and, before you know it, you will be back on track.
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The System has the ability to create resolutions on a document, as in classical office work. Consider the following issues of working with resolutions
- Prerequisites for working with resolutions
- Sending a document to resolution
- Creation of resolution
- Select resolution executors and create tasks for them
- Choice of author of resolution
- Approval of Resolution
- Create resolution route template
Prerequisites for working with resolutions
To work with resolutions, several conditions must be met:
- a resolution in the System can be prepared by a user with the roles of "Office employee" or "Employee-manager", as well as users included in the "Registrar" group;
- The "Resolutions" feature must be enabled in the document type.
Sending document for resolution
Follow these steps to prepare a resolution:
- open a document card that requires a resolution overlay;
- click Send by route - to resolution on the toolbar of the card.
Create resolution
Next, a dialog will appear, with which you can prepare a resolution: New resolution First, add resolution executors and create tasks for them.Select resolution executors and create tasks for them
To select resolution executors, click the button Add executor , a user selection dialog will appear, select users and change (if necessary) their task, specify the due date and task type:
Task for the executor of the resolution If several executors have been selected, then using the button Apply to all , the entered tasks and deadlines will be applied to all executors of the resolution..jpg)
Task type can be as follows:
- for execution (automatic closing) - the task is automatically completed after the executor's report;
- for execution (manual closing) - the task is completed manually by the author;
- for review - the task ends after the performer opens the document card.
Choice of author of resolution
In the dialog for creating a resolution, in the "Author" field, select the required employee on whose behalf the resolution will be created. Depending on the role of the user who prepares the resolution, the System either offers to select the author of the resolution, or automatically prescribes it. The choice of the author is needed if the resolution is prepared by the assistant to the head, and the head only approves it. In the "Date" field, enter the date the resolution was imposed.
Create resolution dialog Press the button Send to employees so that after saving the resolution, the route of its implementation will start.
Or leave this button unpressed in order to be able to edit the resolution before launching it along the route:
Approval of Resolution
If the resolution was prepared by the manager's assistant, and the manager only approves it, then the documents for approval of the resolution (consideration and approval of the created resolution or its cancellation, replacement of executors, editing of created instructions according to resolutions, etc.). To endorse the resolution, open the document and go to the "Routes" tab:
Vision resolutionYou have the option to change resolution instructions, add or remove resolution executors, and so on. Press Agree to start route further (thus completing sightings) or NOT agree to cancel the route (all assignments on the route will be forced to complete).
Create resolution route template
In the FossDoc system, a route template can be created by both an administrator and a user with certain rights.
