Keeping New Year's Resolutions
Three Important Questions to Help You keep your Resolutions
It is New Year and most of us have made some New Year Resolutions that we have already broken in the first week or two week of January Our broken promise to lose weight, pay off debt, quit smoking or many other aims are long forgotten.
Lets us start over - this time with a plan. There is nothing wrong with starting your New Year Resolution in February. This time let’s ask 3 key questions to avoid disappointment.
Why Make a Resolution?
When you struggle to keep your resolution, it helps to remember why you made it in the first place. Change and a better healthier lifestyle is the main goal. You see yourself in a different place (better) at the end of 2011 and beyond.
How to Keep this Resolution?
It is important not to pick a resolution on impulse or when in a negative frame of mind. Make realistic goals. If you want to run in the two oceans marathon this year, but have never jogged around the block is doomed to failure. Keep your goals realistic, small and achievable.
Want to lose weight? Set your goal to lose 5kg at a time. Write down a list of foods to enjoy eating according to your calorie intake. Discover a range of sensible and fun exercises: from walking instead of driving, to swimming or dancing. Concentrate on the positive outcome, not just on the lower weight, but a rise in your energy level, glowing skin, well functioning organs and muscles.
Don’t focus on what is impossible but on what can now be accomplished that you could not before.
What If the Resolution is Broken?
Do not quit. You are human. You are in the process of changing something for life. Pick yourself up. Continue.
Make a plan. Gorging suddenly on a mouth-watering chocolate cake? Create a solution beforehand. Call a friend, eat some carrots, jump back on the treadmill, write in your journal. Find a way of stopping the behaviour that undermines your resolution. Don’t blame or feel guilty. Just return to the plan and keep going. The end result is important when making a resolution, but the process is just as essential.
Chances are, at some time in your life, you've made a New Year's Resolution -- and then broken it. This year, stop the cycle of resolving to make change, but then not following through. If your resolution is to take better care of yourself and get your weight/health under control, you'll have a much better year if your resolution sticks.
Guideline on how to keep your New Year Resolution Successful
Remember, it takes 21 days to change a habit and 6 months to change your lifestyle; pretty soon you will have achieved your goal.
It is New Year and most of us have made some New Year Resolutions that we have already broken in the first week or two week of January Our broken promise to lose weight, pay off debt, quit smoking or many other aims are long forgotten.
Lets us start over - this time with a plan. There is nothing wrong with starting your New Year Resolution in February. This time let’s ask 3 key questions to avoid disappointment.
Why Make a Resolution?
When you struggle to keep your resolution, it helps to remember why you made it in the first place. Change and a better healthier lifestyle is the main goal. You see yourself in a different place (better) at the end of 2011 and beyond.
How to Keep this Resolution?
It is important not to pick a resolution on impulse or when in a negative frame of mind. Make realistic goals. If you want to run in the two oceans marathon this year, but have never jogged around the block is doomed to failure. Keep your goals realistic, small and achievable.
Want to lose weight? Set your goal to lose 5kg at a time. Write down a list of foods to enjoy eating according to your calorie intake. Discover a range of sensible and fun exercises: from walking instead of driving, to swimming or dancing. Concentrate on the positive outcome, not just on the lower weight, but a rise in your energy level, glowing skin, well functioning organs and muscles.
Don’t focus on what is impossible but on what can now be accomplished that you could not before.
What If the Resolution is Broken?
Do not quit. You are human. You are in the process of changing something for life. Pick yourself up. Continue.
Make a plan. Gorging suddenly on a mouth-watering chocolate cake? Create a solution beforehand. Call a friend, eat some carrots, jump back on the treadmill, write in your journal. Find a way of stopping the behaviour that undermines your resolution. Don’t blame or feel guilty. Just return to the plan and keep going. The end result is important when making a resolution, but the process is just as essential.
Chances are, at some time in your life, you've made a New Year's Resolution -- and then broken it. This year, stop the cycle of resolving to make change, but then not following through. If your resolution is to take better care of yourself and get your weight/health under control, you'll have a much better year if your resolution sticks.
Guideline on how to keep your New Year Resolution Successful
Remember, it takes 21 days to change a habit and 6 months to change your lifestyle; pretty soon you will have achieved your goal.
