New Year’s Resolution or Goal?

The beginning of a new year often comes with one word many people say but often don’t live by: resolution.

Stephanie Calahan of Calahan Solutions suggests people make goals instead of resolutions.

She says goals are easier to accomplish if you use the acronym ‘SMART’ which partly stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic. She says the T stands for setting a Time limit.

“It’s something that you can go back to and look at and evaluate on whatever regular basis makes sense for you,” said Calahan.

Calahan also suggests writing down your goals in a place that you’ll constantly see it. According to statistics from the Opinion Corporation of Princeton New Jersey 62 percent of people make New Years Resolutions, but only 8 percent are always successful.