The New Year is just around the corner, and many of us are already eagerly anticipating it—after all, there’s nothing quite like a brand-New Year to give us a clean slate and that extra motivation we need to accomplish our goals. Of course, the question is: have you set any New Year’s resolutions yet? If not, let me encourage you to read on. You might just find what you’re looking for.

If you are anything like me, writing down lists of things you want to do gets you excited. You probably even have a list of things to do before the year ends. It’s easy to write them on little pieces of paper, your notebook, or sticky notes and stick them everywhere in your space. One thing that is exciting is setting New Year’s resolutions early.

New Year resolutions are the in thing especially, as the end year approaches. This is the time to set goals you want to achieve in the future. This gives us a sense of general direction in life. Setting goals is essential to drawing the path you want and how to get there.

Resolutions make us look forward to positive changes while providing the necessary motivation to improve ourselves. Writing down goals can be a time to reflect on the past and future, the time to figure out what has been working and what has not. They also provide the necessary motivation, self-esteem, and empowerment after accomplishing even the most minor goal on the list.

As we’ve seen, there are many reasons to go about setting and achieving your New Year’s resolutions. Whether yours is the same as last year or something entirely different, if you make it a priority to follow through, you’ll feel better about it

The key to resolutions is that they must be meaningful and attainable, you need to be able to measure whether you’ve reached your goal, or at least come close to it. If your goals are about being healthier or more active, that’s a great idea, as long as you can stick with it. But don’t get discouraged if you only achieve half of your resolutions. Instead of letting that failure discourage you from future efforts, take a look at how far you went and what went right so that your future resolutions can be even more successful.

New Year’s resolutions are a lot of fun especially when you put it down on paper, it’s like a fresh start! Who doesn’t love that?