How to Track your New Year’s Resolution
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
We’re almost there. We’ve written about how to choose a New Year’s resolution and you’ve started progress on your new year’s resolution.
Like any other goal in your life, tracking your new year’s resolution is a surefire way to success. To help you on your way, we’ll go over creating a goal tracking chart and then link to some online tools that can also help you track your progress.
Creating a Goal Tracking Chart
The best and easiest way to track your progress on your New Year’s resolution is to create a weekly goal tracking chart, very much similar to Ben Franklin’s virtues. Creating one is simple:
- Write your resolution in large type across the top of the page. This lets you see exactly what you set out to accomplish this year.
- Along the top of the chart, make columns for each day Monday – Sunday with corresponding dates.
- Along the side, break down your resolution into daily (or weekly) tasks to accomplish. For example, if your goal is to lose weight some daily goals could be:
- Drink at least 8 glasses of water
- Walk 30 minutes
- Take the stairs at work
- Pack my lunch
- Eat no sweets!
- Each day, mark off with an X or a sticker when you accomplish a goal. Some days you may not hit everything, but the chart will let you see what you are struggling with on a daily basis and what you’re doing great at.
Tools to track your progress online
There are a lot of online tools to help you track your progress and other resources that will help you with your new year’s resolutions.
General Goal Tracking Tools
Weight Loss/Fitness
- Traineo
- Daily Plate
- The Hackers Diet
- Bellygraph
- Fit Day
- eDiets Subscription
- Weight Watchers Subscription
- Cool Running
3 Comments
subscribe comments feedrunningman
December 31st, 2008
Who thinks it is wrong to have more than 1 Resolution? I am going to have 3 this year, I know it is a recipe for failure but I am hoping 09 is the YEAR of the Resolution on like 08, the YEAR of the Corporate bailouts!!!
CLoud
December 31st, 2008
Anyone who wants to make changes in their life please realize that the time is RIGHT NOW to begin. Do not wait for a date such as New Year’s Day. Resolutions are things people use as an aid to their self-esteem yet since most are destined to fail they end up feeling worse about themselves. Give your life the change it needs right now and join the most sophisticated of human beings
Stela Yordanova
January 5th, 2009
Make a new year’s resolution that will make a difference to you and other people.
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