Coaching practices for Make Resolutions Last

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• I make these big all-or-nothing resolutions, slip up once in February, decide I’ve blown it, and quit the whole thing
• I make these resolutions to keep what matters in front of me and within a day they evaporate, swallowed by whatever’s loudest
• I do these honest reviews of my day and then nothing actually changes tomorrow
• I get that big New Year rush of motivation and ride it hard for about a week, then it evaporates and I’m back to nothing
• We have the hard talk, they say "I’ll do better," I feel relieved it’s over

Practices that may help

1. Frame next-year commitments as experiments, not resolutions
   A 90-day experiment is testable and revisable; a resolution is an unmeasured pledge that either holds or breaks.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
2. Use a memento mori object
   Keep a physical object that functions as a daily reminder of impermanence.
   Memento Mori: Using Mortality Awareness to Focus What Matters
3. Close with a forward-looking resolve
   Choose one concrete intention to carry into tomorrow before closing the review.
   The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review
4. Convert the boost into a concrete plan
   Spend the landmark energy building the system, not just feeling motivated.
   The Fresh Start Effect
5. Close with a specific, confirmed, next-step commitment
   An accountability conversation that ends without a specific new commitment has not resolved anything.
   Crucial Accountability: Holding People to Commitments That Matter
6. Change one thing, not everything
   Concentrate all your behavior-change budget on a single keystone instead of spreading it thin.
   Keystone Habits: The Few Changes That Cascade
7. End every review with a single resolved next action
   The review is incomplete until you name one specific thing you will do differently tomorrow.
   The Pythagorean Evening Review
8. Use temporal landmarks to restart future-self commitments
   New Year, birthdays, and month starts are powerful behavioral reset points — use them to recommit.
   Future Self Continuity, Made Practical
9. Run a weekly accountability session
   Hold a short weekly meeting — just 20 minutes — where each person reports on last week’s commitments and makes new ones.
   The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX)
10. The time-boxed trial
    Run every new behavior as an explicit test with a fixed end date.
    Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It

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