New Years is almost here, and for a lot of people, that means making resolutions that they know they're not going to stick to. But if you're one of the people reading this site (and you are!) then there's no reason you can't fulfill your resolutions this year. Here are 3 simple tips to make your New Years resolutions come true, no matter what they are:

1. Don't get psyched about them. The #1 reason people don't fulfill their resolutions for the new year, in my opinion, is because they allow themselves to get psyched out about it. When you first make your resolution, your excitement about what you're setting out to do takes over. You have the whole year ahead of you and you figure you can accomplish whatever you want to accomplish.

What happens after the initial stage of excitement is you start getting intimidated. You set some really big goals for yourself, so big that you can't see yourself ever achieving them. At this point dread starts rearing it's ugly head, and you resign yourself to continuing your life with no changes for the better.

[Don't be a scaredy cat, your goals aren't going to eat you (although you might eat them!).

You can prevent this from happening by not allowing yourself to get psyched up about it. Relax, make your goals,  however big they are, realize people have done harder things and lived to tell the tail, and then from there work on making your goals happen. Which bring us to the next point....

2. Break down your goals into smaller ones. You've made your resolutions for the new year, and you're not allowing yourself to get intimidated by how big they are. The question is, what's the next step? Here you have your huge goal you want to accomplish, but how do you go about completing it?

The key here is to break up your large goals into much smaller ones. Let's say your goal is to lose weight and be able to run 5 miles straight, and that you're currently 100 pounds overweight. This seems like a pretty extreme goal, and certainly an intimidating one. But we can get rid of the intimidation by breaking this into smaller goals, like so:

Yearly goal: Lose 100 pounds, run 5 miles.

Monthly goal: Lose 8 pounds. Increase running distance by half a mile.

Weekly goal: Lose 2 pounds. Increase running distance by an eighth of a mile.

Daily goal: Don't snack or drink soda (600 less calories per day) and walk one mile to get used to exercise again.

See what I did there? Breaking down your goals into smaller steps makes them much more attainable and much less intimidating. All you have to do is stick to your gameplan for the day, and before you know it, you'll have reached your goal.

3. Write your goals down, and track your progress. Writing down your goals on paper (or the computer) is an amazing way to flesh them out and  bring them from your head into the "real world". Even to to write this article, first I wrote down a blueprint of what I wanted to write, and broke it down into sections.

The next important thing is to track your progress. Tracking your progress both gives you self accountability and also allows you to tweak your methods to make sure they're giving you the desired results.

A great place for you to write down and track your progress is in our Fitness Journals forums, which you can not only use as a journal, but also get helpful advice from people in the community. So what are you waiting for? Start writing down your goals and chronicle your progress!