Motivation coaching can really help with sticking to New Year’s resolutions. No matter how important they are, New Year’s resolutions are often blocked and defeated in the first month or two. Yet pretty much everyone makes them because they think that just making the resolutions provides enough motivation to follow through on them. Unfortunately that usually just isn’t true. Think about your own experiences with New Year’s resolutions. How did they work out for you?

Motivation Coaching Tips For New Year Resolutions

When you come right down to it, New Year resolutions aren’t any different from any other commitments except they are made at a particular time on the calendar and they might come in a longer list than usual. So in your motivational coaching, treat them the same way. Make sure your client is aware that a resolution is a commitment. Help him think about what is likely to come up for him to sabotage his motivation and create conflict over meeting the commitments. Does he have the time, money, energy, etc. to do all he is promising himself? What does he need to do to make his resolutions fit into his life? Make the resolutions a non-negotiable matter of personal integrity. What is his word worth? And who is he if he doesn’t keep his word?

What To Do When Motivation Flags

A key part of motivation coaching is to help your client develop some strategies to use on a daily basis to make following through on his resolutions a habit. Here are two of my favorites.
Create rituals to help him stay aware of his success and to feel proud, joyful and grateful about his progress.
Help find your client’s energy drains. What beliefs, actions, people, or environments in his life does he have to let go of or manage differently?

Motivation coaching on resolutions is about helping your clients to stay in integrity with the commitments they’ve made. As R. Buckminster Fuller says, “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” As their coach, you have the privilege and the responsibility of contributing to that success for your clients.

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Dorine G. Kramer
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach