Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever — and Why Resolutions Won’t Work

Scott McKain
3 min readDec 29, 2021

This is the time of year when you’ll see a plethora of posts about how to launch your New Year positively. You’ll also see countless conversations on television news about your resolutions for the coming year.

Well… here’s one more — however, I’m going to suggest you need something OTHER than New Year’s resolutions. Don’t make the same mistake as last year and set resolutions — set goals! You need New Year’s Goals.

New Year’s goals are better than New Year’s resolutions.

What’s the difference between New Year resolutions and New Year goals? You probably don’t remember what last year’s resolutions were — they were just to do something more meaningful, like lose weight or get in shape. Resolutions kind of happen by themselves.

With a resolution, you say to yourself what you want — then you try to find the discipline to achieve it. The most cited example to prove this point is to look at how crowded fitness centers are in January versus how relatively empty they are in May.

Goals are different.

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Scott McKain

Author of “Year’s Ten Best Business” books, “Create Distinction” and “ICONIC.” Member of Sales & Marketing Hall of Fame and Professional Speakers Hall of Fame.