It’s coming to that time of year again, resolution time.
New Year's Resolutions to be exact.
And with a mindset of starting a resolution on January 1st
you’ve pretty much kicked December to the curb,
you’ve created an excuse to let things slide until then.
Whether it's a small, (seemingly) easily achievable goal or a huge, life-changing goal, people tend to fail at the same rate: Approximately 80 percent of people who make New Year's resolutions have dropped them by the second week of February.
While it's certainly harder to achieve a huge goal than a small one, the difficulty of the goal you set isn't nearly as important as whether or not you develop the kind of habits that allow you to achieve that goal.
Waiting for a future date to initiate change is a mindset that can stop you from ever reaching your goals. You learn and start accepting that when things don’t go right, you’ll try again on the 1st of the next month (or maybe it will be the next Monday or some other significant date), this cycle then becomes nearly impossible to break.
I understand that Christmas involves social and family get-togethers that will challenge eating healthy and make exercising regularly a bit harder, a bit more inconvenient.
But reaching your fitness and health goals is never going to be convenient.
And setting future start dates is unlikely to bring success.
If you want to make a change then the time is now, not a future date.
We need to develop a mindset that things will go wrong, that some days we will stuff up, however, these situations shouldn’t then end up into day after day of stuffing up. The next day after a poor day is the day to get back on track!
Make your environment work for you.
Say you want to exercise first thing in the morning. Great: Place your workout clothes by your bed.
Want to eat more fruit? Great: Keep a bowl of apples on your desk.
Want to eat less ice cream? So, I make sure ice cream never makes it into our house.
simple and successful is what I always say.
With it being December there is a common mindset of I will start again after the holiday season,
the truth is this is a mindset we want to avoid, there are still loads of fruitful days left in the year,
days where you can exercise and eat well and still enjoy the festive season occasions.
New Year’s resolutions don’t work, the only thing that works is consistent effort and discipline along with the understanding that one bad day shouldn’t be the catalyst to giving up and waiting for a future date to start again.
There are no shortcuts in being healthy!
whether you want to drop some fat, perform at your best, our feel better the change-maker for this is consistent focus over a long period.
Don’t wait for December to end and the 1st to roll around to make the change. The festival season is a celebration season, not a time to put your health on hold.
So, remember, No one is perfect!
and we all are simply working on progressing each day towards that perfection.
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