Sticking to Your Resolutions

I used to love to go to Jazzercise! I went several times a week because they had babysitting available. I could drop my kids off for an hour and exercise to my heart’s content with my fellow Jazzercisers. My Jazzercise friends and I were hardcore, stretching and dancing to the latest hits even in the summertime when attendance slacked and in the fall when the activities of a new school year kept a lot of folks from attending.

The time of year we all dreaded was New Year’s. We knew that our ranks would swell with new people that had never attended a Jazzercise class before. They would unknowingly take all the best spots, and we would have to avoid them as they stumbled through the routines that they were unfamiliar with. But the annoyance that a slew of newbies presented to us veterans was short-lived. Every week there would be fewer and fewer of the new people. Some would stick, but the majority would give up and we’d never see them again … at least until next New Year’s.

A lot of people make resolutions to start the new year off in a new direction and improve their lives. I put myself in that category every year. Some things actually have gotten better with time. What did the trick for me was finding new and different ways to get to the same desired result. So please let me share a few tricks that I’ve learned for achieving goals in four key areas of life.

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