Keeping your New Year’s resolution
If you want to change your life or your lifestyle, don’t try to change everything at once
At the end or beginning of every year, people usually have New Year’s resolutions that are aimed at changing something about them or their lifestyle. Here are a few ways to ensure that you keep those precious resolutions!
Just pick one thing
If you want to change your life or your lifestyle, don’t try to change everything at once. It won’t work. Instead, pick one area of your life to change to begin with.
Plan ahead
To ensure success, you need to research the change you’re making and plan ahead so you have the resources available when you need them. Here are a few things you should do to prepare and get all the systems in place, ready to make your change.
Read up on it – Go to the library and get books on the subject. Whether it’s quitting smoking, taking up running or yoga, or becoming vegan, there are books to help you prepare for it. Or use the Internet. If you do enough research, you should even be looking forward to making the change.
Pick a start date
You don’t have to make these changes on New Year’s Day. That’s the conventional wisdom, but if you truly want to make changes, then pick a day when you know you’ll be well-rested, enthusiastic and surrounded by positive people.
Go for it
On the big day, go for it 100%. Make a commitment and write it down on a card. You just need one short phrase you can carry in your wallet. Or keep it in your car, by your bed and on your bathroom mirror too for an extra dose of positive reinforcement.
Your commitment card will say something like:
- I enjoy a clean, smoke-free life.
- I stay calm and in control even under times of stress.
- I’m committed to learning how to run my own business.
- I meditate daily.
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