Many Reasons Why We Fail At Personal Change

7 Key Success Factors for Implementing Personal Improvement

The year is half over. For many of us those personal change goals we set back in January are no longer on track. What’s worse is that far too many will wait until next January to set themselves new personal improvement goals.

In fact, despite an abundance of motivation and sense of purpose we originally assign to our New Year’s Resolutions, the large majority of these personal change plans are abandoned within the first 90 days of each year. Research shows that 80% of all New Year’s Resolutions result in failure or are not achieved.

Why is this so? What causes such remarkable low results?

There are numerous reasons behind such dismal outcomes. We believe the main factors that contribute the most to any personal improvement effort failing to achieve the desired outcome are:

• People do not make the top of mind, each and every day. 
• People attempt too many initiatives simultaneously. This is particularly true at the start of the year when the typical New Year's Resolutions list reaches double-digit figures. 
• There is no prioritization, with each resolution being treating as equally important. 
• An unwillingness to just "say no" to distractions and other initiatives. 
• No concrete action plans. Just wishful thinking that change will somehow magically happen. 
• A failure to turn the desired change into a daily habit. 
• Not allowing others to hold us accountable. Keeping our change initiatives private to ourselves indicates we only have to answer to ourselves. And we are all too good at rationalizing our way out of making change. 
• Not putting our goals into a quantifiable format. 
• Not racking our progress or keeping journals to know what is working, and what is not.

 
Get Your Personal Improvement Goals Back on Track

Today, at the midpoint of the year, is a perfect time to review the progress of your personal improvement plans and implement our Mid-Year Resolutions game plan to re-ignite your personal change efforts.

To help you with this, our 7 Key Success Factors for Implementing Personal Change tips will help you overcome the hurdles listed above.

Scientific research shows that it takes on average 66 days for a new behavior to become a new habit. That’s a little over two months!

No wonder so many people give up and abandon their personal improvement plans before reaching success. They typically quit too early in the process as they underestimate the time required to fully inculcate and instill a new behavior or a new change into their daily routines.

Don’t let this happen to you. If you start today, you can have a new set of personal improvement habits in place before summer ends.

Go for it. Start Living A Determined Life by getting your personal improvement goals back on track. 

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