Don't set New Year's resolutions!

What have you got planned for 2009?

Is this going to be a great year for you?

January is the time when so many people set New Years resolutions and then February is usually the time when most of them decide to give up on them!

Why is that?

When someone sets a New Years resolution it is often in order to drastically change something. But we are all creatures of habit and therefore trying to change a certain type of behaviour immediately and permanently is pretty much impossible.
- And so you give up on them!

Why not try a different approach…

Try setting goals for the whole year.

It might not sound any different to you but let me explain;

Say for example you want to lose 10kg – This can go a few ways.

You drastically change your exercise, diet and lifestyle and lose the 10kg relatively easily…. And then you slip back into the old habits and the weight slowly piles back on.

BUT if you set a yearly goal to be 10kg lighter by January 2010 then you have a clear objective throughout the year.

We all have weight fluctuations, so if you gain a few pounds over the summer, so what! You still have 5 or 6 months to achieve your goal.

In the same way if your weight doesn’t drop as quickly as you’d hoped – you still have the rest of the year to achieve your goal.

Either way, just looking at things in a different way will take the pressure off having to achieve your New Years resolutions by the end of January!