Often people, on the eve of the New Year, sum up the outgoing year, admit there are unfinished tasks and… carry them over to the plan for the next year: lose/gain weight, go to the gym, start leading a healthy lifestyle, earn a million, etc. Top 5 ways to create a plan that will definitely work:

1. Give up resolutions that don't work. Striving for perfection is exhausting, draining, and …doesn't work. Start focusing not on what you're failing at, but on what you do well and how it will help in achieving your goals?
2. Make a Truce Agreement with Your Inner Critic. Have you ever seen self-deprecating ads like «Buy our product – it's the worst in the world!». Quite funny, right? Well, big greetings to the inner critics, from now on their task is to find the best in you and share it with the world.
3. Learn something new about yourself. We spend so much time getting to know the world, theories, people around us, that we often forget about ourselves. New knowledge about what we love, what we really want, can fill us with powerful energy and a desire to live, try, create, strive, etc.

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And for those struggling with anxiety, insecurity, or the blues, these feelings can trigger recovery and exciting discoveries in the New Year.

4. Use the good old SMART. Surely you’ve already googled in search of the best 2020 plan and noticed that the most wonderful goals don’t work if they’re not SMART:

• Specific, when you clearly and simply define what you want (for example, run a marathon or buy a smartphone)
• Measurable, when there is a clear marker that you’ve achieved it (for example, how many kgs to lose or how many km to run; or how much money to save/earn)
• Achievable, when there is a clear understanding that it is realistic (for example, losing weight or running a marathon with two weeks or a year of preparation; saving up for a smartphone over a certain period)
• Relevant, you’ll understand when you ask yourself: «Will there be opportunities – time, place, finances, etc. in your day, week, month to achieve this result?»
• Time-bound, when you can clearly envision how, with the new changes, your life will change in terms of schedule, diet, sleep, work, contacts – every hour and every minute of your life and for how long. This will help you create smaller goals that are achievable and realistic, so that you and your goal can increase your chances of success.

5. Spend less, save more. And this is not about finances. Next year, pay attention to how much time and life energy you spend allowing yourself to get involved in stress, conflicts, disagreements, unpleasant emotions. Let go of old ways, and new opportunities will come to you, for yourself and for whom/what you love.

And here, the help of a psychologist or self-help can play a key role. After all, your emotions are the quality of your life.

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Therefore, if you have come up with new creative solutions, but you don’t know where to start, or vice versa, you don’t believe that everything is possible, discuss it with your psychologist, the ipsycholog team knows, can, and is able to make your New Year better than the previous one.

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