New Year Wishes 8

New Year Resolutions

Be aware: Changing old pattern takes some work initially; you are changing often long held habits and beliefs.  Making changes means making new neural pathways in your brain, this is like taking a new unknown route, you have to be mindful of what you are doing.  Listen to your self-speak,

Be joyous:  Celebrate your success e.g. every half stone lost.  Don’t wait for the final achievement.

Be daring:  Confide in a trusted friend and ask them to keep you accountable, make a promise that you will report back to them every week.

Be committed: Resolutions for the year not for the for the first month, make a plan day by day, week by week, month by month and review it every day.  Set one goal and take small steps e.g. 10 minutes walk and 1lb loss in week one.

Be honest:  Look at the aspects of yourself you don’t like and that are sabotaging your desire to change, making positive affirmations about yourself that you don’t really believe don’t work and be damaging to your self-esteem.

Be prepared:  Set up structures that will help you achieve your goals, what do you need to bring about change?  Put them in place. Be prepared for the effort you will have to put in.

Be specific.  This is paramount in achieving goals, so the say loose weight isn’t enough, you need to set a realistic time frame over which to measure your weight loss, so to loose 3 stone will take around 28 weeks, so your end goal date would be around mid-July, just in time for your summer holiday, as motivation picture yourself in that great bikini.

Be realistic:  Usually the focus of our resolutions have a wider impact on our life and will call for some real changes, in short we are looking to reinvent ourselves or some aspect of our life, this involves changing habits, particularly bad habits. Don’t set unrealistic goals and expectations.