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5 Ways To Actually Keep Your New Years Resolutions

How to stop breaking your resolutions.

Tom Williams
4 min readJan 7, 2020
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After repeated years of breaking my new year’s resolution, I’d originally decided not to make any this year, after all, if the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, how was I realistically supposed to expect that anything would go differently if I set the same resolutions I had failed to keep year after year.

However, once the New Year came, I couldn’t help but get caught up in the tsunami of social media posts from people optimistically trying to change their lives for the better. As I looked ahead to one of the most important years of my lifetime, I realised that not actively trying to better myself just wasn’t an option. While I’d failed in past years to achieve my resolutions, those resolutions were still deeply important to me.

But, in the back of my mind I still knew that doing exactly the same thing as before was unlikely to yield different results, so I decided that something needed to change. Therefore, instead of setting completely different resolutions, I am simply going to change the way I go about achieving them. Below, are the five steps I’m going to take to improve my resolutions to make sure I follow through on them, and throughout, I’m going to show you how to…

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Tom Williams
Tom Williams

Written by Tom Williams

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