ICR296: Your Resolutions for 2018

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Informed Choice Radio. Happy New Year!

It’s that time again, that time when we make our resolutions for the year ahead. Today on the podcast, it’s all about resolutions.

I’m going to be talking about why 92% of people fail to keep their New Year’s Resolutions and how you can keep yours.

I’ll also share some important personal finance resolutions for 2018, before sharing my own goals and my resolutions for this podcast too!

Here are the steps I discuss in this episode when it comes to making and sticking to resolutions in 2018:

1 – Change one thing at a time

2 – Find the sweet spot between achievable and big, hairy, audacious goals

3 – Make yourself accountable to others

4 – Learn from past success (and failure)

5 – Break big goals down into little goals

Here are my suggestions in this episode for personal finance resolutions in 2018:

1 – Come up with a really clear vision for the future

2 – Get the foundations right

3 – Invest in yourself

4 – Prioritise income over expenditure

5 – Get organised

And here are my own resolutions for 2018:

1 – Read 100 books

2 – Focus on my fitness

3 – Pass the Investment Management Certificate

4 – Make a success of my new business

Useful links

–Stuffocation by James Wallman

Pensioner tax raid fears (Talking Money #9 from Informed Choice Radio)