Resolutions are usually tasks or goals we either don’t really want to do (but think we ‘should’ do) or have struggled to do in the past. That’s why we think we have to ‘resolve’ ourselves to get them done every year. Perhaps this is why most of us FAIL at the New Year’s Resolutions we set every year.

How about for 2010 we stop doing what isn’t working for most of us anyway?  Deal?  Good.  Let’s take a more powerful approach and set ourselves up for success at the real estate-related endeavors we’d like to pull off in 2010 by rethinking resolutions at their most basic level.

What if our resolutions weren’t these out-there goals that we’ve already tried and failed at fourteen times?  What if we surgically excised the connotation of struggle and difficulty that requires ‘resolve,’ threw it out and, instead, got down to business?! At work, with your family, and in your business, you have deliverables – things you are responsible and accountable for, well, delivering. And you do them, most of them, with ease.  Some of them, with joy! You don’t struggle to do your job or to get your kids where they need to be.

In that spirit, let’s plan a set of resolutions deliverables for 2010, and set ourselves up to deliver them with ease and with joy. Because I said so.

The fabulosity of rethinking your 2010 resolutions into deliverables is that you are responsible and accountable only to yourself, for delivering to yourself things that you decided you wanted to accomplish – for yourself! Rethink your resolutions this year as gifts you plan to deliver to yourself all year long, as you execute them.  Some of them will be little gifts of order, others will be gifts that foster and foment (I love that word!) your long-term prosperity, financially and otherwise.

Even the most real estate-obsessed rethinker will should have resolutions deliverables that are non-real estate related, and I urge you to really rethink the way you envision them in your self-talk. Rethink “lose 20 pounds” into the specific ways you’ll change your behavior (and reward your behavior changes): “cardio X times/week, yoga @ 7 am Monday, Wednesday & Friday, eat veg and lean proteins, 1 carrot cupcake/week, etc.”  Yes, I said it – calendar your carrot cupcakes (or lemon ricotta pancakes, or Haawaiian barbecue potato chips – you get the gist). It’s the key to sustainable, lifelong wellness. Take my word for it.

When it comes to your real estate-related deliverables for 2010, though, I want to inspire you to think beyond the basic “buy a house,” “get a bigger house,” etc.   So, I’ve put together lists of Smart Real Estate Resolutions Deliverables for 2010 – whether you’re currently buying, selling, or just being a smart homeowner, see if any of these spark your own vision of home.

Suggested 2010 Real Estate Deliverables

for Smart Women:

Universal List

Home Buyers

Home Sellers

Home Owners

And every rethinker needs to take the affirmative first step of rethinking real estate – declare your financial responsibility.

. . .but that’s not all!

I’ve also put together two guides to take you from your plan for 2010 through executing that plan:

The REThink Real Estate Resolution Deliverable Setting Guide

- this one has actionable strategies and need-to-knows to help you et yourself up for success from the beginning

and

The REThink Real Estate Guide to Getting Unstuck

- this one is especially for those rethinkers who just plain old get stuck on their path to giving themselves their 2010 deliverables – real estate-related or otherwise.