To stay on track with New Year's resolutions, try this smart goal strategy
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As we dive into the New Year with fresh resolutions, a big question is: How long are we going to stick with them? We often start the year with energy and determination and then quickly find ourselves flagging.
But there is a strategy that can help both in setting goals and sticking with them and managing time is the key.
"Time management is essential to the smart goal approach," says Keisha Moore-Medina, a therapist at the Menninger Clinic in Houston, who helps clients navigate goal-setting, using a well-known strategy that was developed in the 1980s known by the acronym SMART.
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It's a formula that helps you organize your time around your goals. And this may require you to say 'no' to activities that don't align.
"There are just more things that matter than any one of us is ever going to have the time to dedicate ourselves to," says Oliver Burkeman, who wrote the book 4,000 weeks.
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