People who make commitments beforehand (of the type, if X passes, then I will do Y), are much more likely to act to achieve their goals than people who lack those mental projects.
That is, if we have to make a list of good purposes for the new year, we will surely abandon them soon because they are just that: objectives. There is no plan in advance.
Implementation Purposes
For example, I want to drink less alcohol, but I have to plan that if the waiter asks me if I want anything else, then I will have to ask for a carbonated water
The psychologist Peter Gollwitzer calls this mental planning in pursuit of objectives "implementation purposes." They do not need to be very elaborate plans, they can be of the type: when I leave work today, I will go straight to the gym. As Chip Heath abounds in his book Magic Moments:
The probability of success is impressive. Setting implementation purposes more than doubled the number of students who delivered certain jobs on time; doubled the number of women who performed breast self-exams in certain months, and halved the recovery time of patients with hip or knee prostheses.
So, with each new New Year's purpose, nothing like a tree of implementation purposes so that, in the face of doubt or carelessness, we know what we should do at each moment.
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