Restarting your New Years resolution, this time smarter!

Did you make a New Year’s resolution? To lose 10 pounds? 15? Or something completely different? I’m guessing that for most people, right around now your diet has started to slip a little bit and maybe you aren’t hitting the gym as much as you were planning. At this point, 2 months later is about the time when almost half of those resolutions have failed and people are no longer working toward them.

As I posted in the middle of January about how we should be setting process goals instead of outcome goals as our “resolutions”, now is the time where it becomes even more important. For those who made that outcome goal, many people don’t know exactly how to achieve their goal and now their lack of knowledge and lack of time with the real world catching up is causing them to fail and give up on their resolutions.

How can someone maintain that resolution or start over now? Process Goals! I said it before, but these are truly the only goals that are sustainable and will get you to where you want to be. If you want to lose weight, stop eating junk! But that is a little extreme, isn’t it? So you start slowly, first just take away pop, and then make a commitment to go to the gym 3 times a week. After that you will see great progress, and once that becomes ingrained in your lifestyle, then you can take away something else and maybe add a day at the gym. Making those small changes slowly until they become a part of your lifestyle is the way to really see results and achieve your goals.

Now is the time that most people will see failure in their New Year’s resolution. Don’t be just another person to fail. Now is the time to restart and really get your life set by making small changes. Anyone can do it, you can do it!

To a better day, week, month, year, and most importantly, to a better life.