How to stick to your New Years Resolutions !

• Create a plan: A good plan will tell you 1) What to do next and 2) What are all of the steps required to complete the goal.
• Create your plan immediately: If you’re like most people, then you’ll have a limited window of opportunity during the first few days of January to harness your motivation. After that, most people forget their resolutions completely.
  It is imperative that you begin creating your plan immediately.
• Write down your resolution and plan: Commit to your resolution and plan by writing it down someplace, such as a notebook or journal, where you will see it everyday, it acts as a reminder.
• Think Year round not JUST New Years: Nothing big gets accomplished in one day. Resolutions are set in one day, but accomplished with a hundred tiny steps that happen throughout the year. New Year’s resolutions should be nothing more than a starting point. You must develop a ritual or habit for revisiting your plan.
• Remain flexible: Expect that your plan can and will change. Life has a funny way of throwing unexpected things at us, and flexibility is required to complete anything but the simplest goal. Sometimes the goal itself will even change. Most of all, recognize partial successes at every step along the way. Just as a resolution isn’t accomplished the day it’s stated, neither is it accomplished the day you reach your goal. Rather, it’s accomplished in many small increments along the way. Acknowledge these incremental successes as they come.

Remember to not set unrealistic goals, as those will not be met. Start off with a small goal, take weight loss for instance, I am a personal trainer and the biggest New Years resolutions I hear is “I want to lose weight” when I ask how much they say anything form 20-100 lbs. While that is a nice goal, most can not set and stick to a goal that will take that long to achieve. Start with 5 lbs, then when you lose 5 revise your goal to 10 lbs lost. It is much easier to stick with smaller goals and reach them then setting big ones and never getting close

Happy New Years Everyone !!! I hope this helps, remember if you have any questions or comments please feel free to click the add a comment icon at the bottom of this post

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