How to Succeed at Your New Year's Goals!
Create a Mindset for Success!
Give Yourself Credit! You know how to be successful. Often, we don’t spend enough time feeling proud of our accomplishments. We focus on what we should have done rather than all the things we did do. Feel good about them and celebrate.
List all the things you accomplished last year.
Now, set some goals for this year. Below is how to set them up for success.
Very small steps in behavior can produce big changes in your life.
This is key to succeeding at new year’s resolutions to improve your health and life. Start with building a pattern of success through taking small steps.
Most people choose big goals for their New Year’s Resolutions. Nothing wrong with having a big goal or vision of how you want to be a year from now. However, there are reasons that gyms are packed in January and are pretty empty by the end of February. Is going to the gym 3-4/week a realistic goal for you? What has stopped you from succeeding in the past? You need to assess this because you need to incorporate a plan to get around these obstacles if you want to succeed at your goals this year.
Imagine the end goal but choose 1 small action you can do consistently. This will be your New Year’s Resolution. This is the key to you succeeding. Little goals have big impact. For example, if you stopped eating 150 calories per day, you would lose a lb. of fat in about 23 days. This could lead to a good weight loss in a year. Now, realistically everyone has different metabolisms and activity levels so this will vary from person to person. However, cutting out 1 can of pop per day and replacing it with a zero-calorie sparkling water flavored with Vitality Essential Oils will have an impact. (They cost less than 10 cents to make). Do this for 30 days until you have developed the habit of using flavored water you can make yourself for a few cents instead of grabbing a pop. Once this becomes a consistent habit then select another small action to take consistently.
What you will be doing is achieving 12 successful mini-goals over the year.
This teaches us a pattern of success we can build on.
Steps to Success for Your Goals
Acknowledge that you have succeeded at goals in the past. List what went right this last year.
Choose a goal for this year.
Break it down to small action steps.
Choose 1 action as your goal this month.
Identify obstacles from achieving this in the past. Make a plan around the obstacles.
Commit to this action for 1 month. Find someone to be accountable to and be supportive.
Celebrate your success.
Choose another mini-goal on month 2.
This month select 2 or 3 simple goals of the 6 areas for total health and wellbeing:
Exercise
Improving Nutrition
Reducing Toxic Chemicals in Your Home
Transforming Stress and Health
Having Fun
Making a Difference
Commit to this action for 30 days. When you feel you have developed this new habit as part of your life, add another health action for the next 30 days. Over time you have developed successful healthy lifestyle habits!
Check out the next 2 blogs. I will give you simple actions for improving your fitness and nutrition.