Resolutions Made-3, Resolutions Completed-0

We are now entering the 4th week of January. How many of you made resolutions but never completed the resolutions, let alone started?

Don’t beat yourself up because you stopped your diet, or exercise program or started smoking again. Take a step back and re-assess your goal.

Start out small. Establish small achievable goals. For example, if you are trying to change your nutrition lifestyle (versus dieting) eliminate one bad food product per week. If you are trying to exercise try 1-5 movement patterns (stretching or resistance exercise) per day and just add 1 movement or 1 repetition per day. If you are trying to quit smoking, eliminate one cigarette per day.

Imagine if you do just a little at a time how much you will have done or eliminated at the end of the month.

Small changes over time lead to greater changes overall.

No New Year Resolutions Please

I wish everyone a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year. As you all know the New Year brings the time-practiced act of setting resolutions and goals. But there is a difference in a resolution and a goal.

A resolution is the act of analyzing a complex notion into simpler ones: the act of answering: the act of determining.

The definition of a goal is usually defined in the setting of playing sports. A goal can be defined as the end toward which effort is directed.

Aside from sports most people think of goals as dreams or accomplishments.

For example, the most common resolution of the New Year is to lose weight. But it is not a resolution it is a goal/dream. The resolution portion is how to make it simple to lose weight.

I recommend NOT making New Year resolutions and instead create dreams and goals for the New Year. Author Stephen K. Hayes says it best… Turn dreams into Goals, Goals into Objectives, Objectives into Tasks, and Tasks into Steps.

Here’s wishing you all the best.