Science can’t tell you exactly what to resolve—but it has narrowed in on a few tricks that can help you succeed.
I’ve always hated New Year’s resolutions, which sound to me like a list of things I should be doing, but am not. What’s the point? If it were important to me, I’d already be doing it. But talking to a colleague recently about New Year’s resolutions, I realized that maybe I’m being too dismissive. I’m all for self-improvement, which is really what most resolutions are about. I just don’t want to make myself feel crappy about something I’m not doing.
It might sound counterintuitive, but Norcross said that making two resolutions can sometimes be an effective strategy for success. He calls it “co-action” — “we find that if the two goals are related, they can result in synchronicity.” For example, if you’re trying to stop smoking, consider piggybacking it onto a plan to manage stress too. If you’re someone who uses smoking for relaxation and stress management, making a goal to find another way to do that will help you succeed.
It was making me miserable to find myself panicking every time a deadline rolled around. So I made a very concerted effort to do my work in advance. All that time that I’d normally spendwriting, I would instead spend at my desk, pecking away at the story. And what I found when I did this was that the writing process was just as miserable,except it took me longer and the work I produced was no better. It actually felt worse, because I’d spent more time hovering over it.
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