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5 Witchy Tips to Stick to Your Resolutions 

Posted on by Shanna S Mathews-Mendez

I know. I know. Everyone’s got your answers to how to stick to your resolutions this New Year. What’s so different about this piece? Well, for starters, this article is not about New Year’s resolutions. It’s about resolutions, period. In fact, I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. After all, statistics show only about 10% of people who make New Year’s resolutions stick to them, most by the end of January! 

Furthermore, I’m a witch, so these tips aren’t just any old tips, they’re witchy tips! So. Much. Better.  

The truth is that it is important to make resolutions, to set goals, to have ambitions. Progress in life is what keeps us genuinely happy. But for your resolutions to stick, you’ll have to make them realistic to you. You’ll need to allow yourself time. And you’ll want to prepare yourself mentally, emotionally, and yes, even spiritually — whatever that means to you.  

Notes on Resolutions  

So, before we get into my witchy tips to stick to your resolutions, let’s look at the nature of resolutions, and the nature of goal setting. I have set many, many goals in my life, and I have achieved 80% of them. I ran away from home at the age of 15 and supported myself. I became the youngest bank manager at a major corporate bank at the age of 25. I put myself through college and grad school. I had two kids when doctors told me it was unlikely without medication. I left a job I loved and became a freelance writer making a decent living.  

The other 20% of the resolutions I have made that I have not achieved, I either reevaluated and changed my mind about, or I am still working on them. For example, I decided not to apply to PhD programs once I discovered I was pregnant with my first child. And my fitness goals are far from complete, they’re a major work in progress.  

The lessons I have learned in life about setting goals have helped me improve over the years, and I’m here to share those lessons with you.  

January 1st Is Not the New Year 

But first I want to make clear that January 1st is the lamest time of the year to try to set and accomplish goals. Winter has just begun, you are exhausted from all the holiday fervor (especially if you’re a mom), and nothing in nature is starting anything new right now. Why on earth would we push ourselves to?  

More realistically, the new year begins in early February, at the halfway mark between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. For witches, that day is Imbolc, Feb 1. We light fires, we celebrate nature waking up, and we begin our new ventures for the coming year.  

So, don’t put pressure on yourself to get started with your resolutions on January 1st.  

1. Prepare Yourself Mentally and Emotionally 

Hands of young woman holding handwritten letter Created with Generative AI technology

Which brings us to our first witchy tip for how to stick to your resolutions. Don’t stress out about starting on January 1st. Instead, take this month to prepare yourself. If your goal is fitness, start with small walks around the block or in your yard. Get outside more. Get into the gym and lift weights for 15 minutes before jumping into the sauna, showering, and heading to see a movie.  

If your goal is to establish your own business this year, start by networking. Attend local mixers with your potential colleagues, and show up on LinkedIn, the social media platform for business people. Read a book on your field, listen to a podcast, or just go out to dinner and drinks with people in your industry.  

If your goal is to eat healthier, just start making small cuts where you know you should. Maybe a few pieces of candy instead of the whole bag. Have more vegetables than starchy carbs on your plate. Integrate a salad daily.  

If you’re trying to get your book written, start outlining. Do some online investigating about how to write a book. Check in with chatrooms or join a Facebook group about starting your first book.  

The goal in the first month of learning to stick to your resolutions is to get really fired up. These are your pre-workout days.  

To that end, write yourself a letter, with pen, or pencil, and paper — not on the computer. Draft this letter to yourself about your hopes and dreams for the year ahead, what you expect to see from yourself by next December, and how you want to feel.  

The vast majority of what we do or do not do depends on how we feel about it. As Abraham Hicks says, everything we do, we do because we think it will make us feel good. Explore all of these feelings in your letter to yourself. Then fold that letter up, put it in an envelope, and store it away until next December.  

2. Don’t Tell Everyone! 

One of the biggest mistakes we all make when we start something new is that we tell everyone we know. “Guess what I’m doing!”  

It makes sense. We’re all fired up, and we want others to be excited about our goals, too, and, ideally to cheer us on.  

The problem is that most of what we do in life depends on what we believe. Belief in our abilities, in our capacity for growth, and in who we will become is most of what spurs us on to our individual perception of greatness.  

When we tell people about our goals, even one naysayer or lackluster response can have a disastrous effect on our self-esteem and belief in ourselves. And most people aren’t trying to hurt us or shut us down. They don’t believe in themselves; how can they possibly believe in you?  

Then, if you tell a bunch of people, and you don’t do as well as you hoped, or it doesn’t happen as quickly as you’d hoped (it won’t), you lose even more belief in yourself.  

And you quit.  

So shut up, put your head down, and get to work.  

There’s a reason the village witch did not live in the middle of the village and practice her magic in full view of the whole community.  

Rather, she had her cottage off and away and she practiced her magic alone, in meditation, and let those who believed in her and needed her come to her.  

Be like that witch.  

Of course, you can share your dreams with one or two people closest to you, your most trusted circle, or any coach who might be cheering you on and guiding you. Otherwise, keep it to yourself, and let others comment on your progress as they see it.  

What’s that saying? It takes 30 days for you to notice progress and 60 days for friends to start commenting on your progress. Depending on your specific goal, it may take longer.  

3. Slow Down Speedracer! 

Happy woman relaxing on the sofa at home – Smiling girl enjoying day off lying on the couch, Healthy life style, good vibes people and new home concept

So be patient with yourself and let it take however long it takes.  

The more patient you are, the less you try to rush it and push against the process, the more success you are likely to have.  

In the witchy world, pushing anything is always pushing against. When you push, the energy is always pushing away.  

Instead, welcome what’s coming for you.  

Yes, set your goals, but also set benchmarks for those goals. Think in the long term.  

A Stanford computer scientist, Roy Amara, said that we overestimate the impact of what we can get done in the short term and underestimate what we can accomplish in the long term.  

You’re trying to lose this many pounds in this many months, and it’s usually too much weight in too little time.  

You want to be a published author by the end of the year, but you have no control over the market, publishing houses, or agents.  

One of my favorite quotes is by Jeff Bezos who said, when planning for Amazon as a major corporation, that he was “long on vision and short on details.”  

Meaning, yes, set that big goal, but don’t try to crunch it into a specific, short timeline.  

Instead, set smaller goals that will help you accomplish that larger goal. If you want to lose 100 pounds, aim for a few pounds every month.  

If you want to write a book, aim for a few pages every day.  

If you want to start a business, aim for one client in the next few months.  

Part of practicing real magic is understanding the balance between discipline and relaxation.  

You want to keep going and you want to see progress, because those will help you continue to believe in yourself (and belief is EVERYTHING). But you don’t want to burn yourself out and turn your life into all work and no play, or you’ll lose your passion.  

Abandon all hope of striking this perfect balance any time soon. You will fail and fail again.  

4. Fail Forward, but Stick to Your Resolutions, So You Don’t Quit 

Yes. You will fail.  

And you will fail again.  

And again.  

Author and early law of attraction practitioner Napoleon Hill says in his book, Think and Grow Rich that success is always just on the other side of failure. It is the person who gets up after being knocked down that succeeds.  

Most people stay down.  

So be okay with failing. Indeed, see failure not as a negative but as a lesson on your way to success.  

Thomas Edison, after finally inventing the lightbulb, said that he didn’t find one way to invent a lightbulb but rather 99 ways not to invent a lightbulb.  

You are now living in the school of life. Allow yourself to learn.  

One of the biggest atrocities of the American school system is that it teaches kids success or failure and not failure on the way to success.  

It’s why I homeschool. 

It’s why I am a practicing witch.  

Because I believe failure is not only an inherent part of life but a joyous part of life.  

We learn from our failures. Not from our successes.  

So fail. Throw yourself into your goals, and see what works. Then, try something new.  

The only mistake you can really make is to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting new results.  

You’re not insane, are you?  

Fail. Just don’t quit.  

5. Remember It Won’t All Happen on Jan 1, or Feb 1, or March 1… 

colorful butterfly is laying on a woman’s hand

And finally, don’t try to start it all on January 1st, and don’t expect it all to happen for you on January 1st. Or February 1st. Or whatever completely arbitrary date you have selected.  

You are God, in human form, but you are not God in your godly state right now. You are not all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful in your limited human form.  

But the God you came from is.  

That energy that creates worlds is listening to your thoughts, your hopes, your dreams, and your goals, and it is sending you all the signs, all the doors, all the windows, all the tools you need to get everything you want.  

Your job is not to make it happen, but to let it happen.  

Remember, the harder you push, the harder you are pushing against.  

So relax, and trust in your plan, in your goals, in your benchmarks.  

Do the work, go lightly, go gently, and most of all, enjoy yourself.  

Whatever you accomplish or don’t accomplish, have fun with it.  

Make it about loving the act of creating a life you love, not creating a life so that you can love it once you’ve created it.  

The biggest bunch of Christian bullshit I’ve heard from the pulpit is the idea that you have to suffer now to be rewarded in heaven.  

Nothing could be further from the truth.  

You will have to make sacrifices and be disciplined now to get the rewards you seek later, but you are not Job. You are not being tested. You should not be enduring years, or even months, of misery to get some imaginary reward down the line.  

The witchiest advice I can give you is to remember that you were God before you came into this human life and you will be God when you return. You came here to have the human experience. Nothing more and nothing less.  

So have it.  

Set your goals, dream your dreams, breathe life into your hopes, and move into them to stick to your resolutions.  

But do not forget to have your human experience as you go.  

So if you die today or if you die 75 years from now, you will know that, above all else, you truly lived. 

Now go forth and be witchy. 

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