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Effectiveness, Management, Motivation, Success

Gaining Leverage on Your New Year’s Resolution.

Over the last couple of days, I have tried to provide principles to help you keep your New Year’s Resolutions and I provided a New Year’s Resolution Action Plan.

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Today, I want to help you amplify the strength of your commitment.

I chose this picture of the man with the crowbar to illustrate the importance of leverage.How difficult would it be to rip apart a wooden pallet with your bare hands? How much easier if you use the crowbar?

That is the power of leverage.  I want to help you get leverage on your New Year’s Resolutions.

Do you want to lose weight?

  • Do not drink your calories.  Replacing  each serving of Coke, OJ, Milk, and Coffee with water each day could easily delete 500 calories.
  • This could be 800-1200 calories if you have a thing for Starbucks lattes.

Do you lack motivation to eat healthy?

  • Start small. Each small step moves you toward your goal.
  • Eat slightly less meat and a larger portion of vegetables. That isn’t hard.
  • Reframe your experience (READ THIS:  New Year’s Resolution Action Plan).

Do you want to get healthy?

  • Stop eating one bad thing each day.
  • Start taking a good multivitamin.

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Do you have a hard time taking a multivitamin?

  • Get chewables or gummies and place it on your desk so you see it every day.
  • If it is in front of you and it is more like a treat than a burden, you are more likely to ingest it.

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Do you want to grow intellectually?

  • Go back to school.
  • Borrow Audiobooks from your local public library.
  • Download free audiobooks from Librivox.

Do you want to grow spiritually?

  • YouVersion has will help you read through the Bible in a year (a free app with reminders).
  • You can even listen to it as an audio book.

The point is simple:

  1. Whatever your resolution, act.
  2. When you act, set yourself up for success with leverage.

What can you add to the list to help others get leverage?

-Darin Gerdes, Ph.D.
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Dr. Gerdes is the Director of Graduate Programs in the School of Business at Charleston Southern University. All ideas expressed on www.daringerdes.com are his own.