Year end stress is real for a lot of people. For many it’s turns into a full-blown depression.

Google ‘holiday stress’ and you get about 346 million results. So it’s a big deal. I certainly don’t intend to trivialize or minimize it and the Mayo Clinic offers some tips on how to cope with it.

I want to address a little different kind of stress that begins to creep into our consciousness around at year end. And that’s a realization that you didn’t accomplish what you intended at the beginning of the year.

Okay, those New Year’s Resolutions are mostly a way to make yourself feel good about the new year. It’s a new year, a new beginning (and we like beginnings) and a new chance to make a change in your life.

What were those lofty goals you set last January?

Lose weight? Get a promotion or big raise? Get a new job? Write a book? Exercise more? Buy a new house?

I’ll let you fill in yours:______________________________________________________.

But at year end you beginning to realize you don’t have much of the year left and you didn’t get it done. So now you start to beat yourself up and you feel like you failed.

You still want to make the change, but you’re out of time. Maybe you can get started now on that goal, but the holiday’s are going to take up your time and then the year end is here. Again, you see yourself as a loser.

Well, let me help you remove some of that stress.

It’s not completely your fault.

“What?” you might say, “I’m the one who made the resolution and I’m the one that didn’t do it. How’s it not my fault?”

I said not ‘completely’ your fault. Yes, you made the resolution and no you didn’t keep it. But no one showed you the right way to do it.

Did you even write it down? Did you know that only about 3% of the people who set goals write them down? And if you do write them down you have a 42% better chance of meeting that goal.

If you didn’t know that critical piece of setting goals, then it’s not completely your fault you failed to keep your resolutions.

So don’t make that mistake next year.

Don’t stress so much at year end about not keeping your resolutions. Make a new plan today that you will carefully consider your resolutions or goals for next year and start by writing them down.

That’s the first step.

If you really want to do it right and move your family, life and career forward in 2019 then you’ll need to follow a process that starts with writing down your goals.

That’s the process you’ll find in my book The Success Grower.

Follow the process, stay committed to the process and your goals and you’ll be amazed at where you’ll be at year end 2019. And if you’d like to discuss how the process can work for you, click HERE to schedule a no obligation discovery call or contact me by email.

And if you know of someone who’s beating themselves up for not accomplishing what they wanted this year or are tired of being stuck in the same rut and are looking for a way to move forward in life, get them a copy of The Success Grower for Christmas. Just click this link to Amazon.

2019 is the last year of the decade. Make it a great one and set a new path for the next decade.