New Year's Resolutions? Small steps on how to help you make progress.
- maja295
- Jan 4, 2023
- 2 min read
With the New Year just 4 days old, many of us are energized, refreshed and ready to take on changing our lives, AKA as New Year Resolutions.
Most New Year’s resolutions are:
Get in shape
Join a Gym
Eat healthier
Save money
Just to name a few.
While setting yourself a goal is a great way to move towards a positive change in your life, understanding how to make these changes realistically happen can be quite challenging and even overwhelming.
As motivation is still high at the beginning, relying purely on being motivated can lead easily to disappointment, as our motivation is not consistently present.
It is common that people start struggling to maintain their resolutions over time as the normal routine of our live starts settling back in.
What can you do to make a change?
1. Ask yourself a simple question: WHY?
Ask yourself WHY you want to make this change and find a deeper meaning and motivator to it.
Simply saying: I want to lose weight/workout/safe money/eat healthy is not a deeper meaning. Why do you want to lose weight/want to work out, safe money, go to the gym?
Dig deep, and really understand your WHY.
2. Find a simple task you can do, EVERY SINGLE DAY or a defined number of times per week.
Did you find you WHY?
Make it happen with little steps. Can you do X twice or three times/week? If so, commit to it and plan it into your agenda.
It has to be a realistic step you can manage within your daily life, too difficult? Change it until you can manage.
Yes, EVERY little step counts.
3. Plan for it.
Plan when and how you can do your chosen action. Put it into your agenda. Commit to doing it.
Track yourself on how many times you actually did your action.
4. Be flexible and adjust when needed
Life is dynamic, days change, things come up. It’s OK. Adjust, be flexible, don’t beat yourself up. Breathe, and think how you can do your task best given the situation, stay focused and do your best.
One Step at the time is the key, major overhauls are unrealistic.
5. Find a support system for you
Have an accountability partner, someone who encourages you, family, friend, a coach to support you and give you feedback.
Remember that SMALL CHANGES DONE CONSISTENTLY beat major unrealistic actions done once or twice, EVERY SINGLE TIME.
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