How To Stick To Your New Year Resolutions For Health And Wellness
New Year resolutions for health and wellness are famously difficult to keep. Every year thousands of people promise themselves that they are going to give up smoking, get in better shape or finally get around to going on a diet. And every year thousands of people fail to follow through.
Below are 5 tips to ensure that, no matter what health-related new year resolution ideas you decide to make, you’ll have the greatest possible chance of seeing them through. But be warned, some of these tips are pretty intense and they are certainly not for the weak-hearted!
5 Tips To Actually Keep Those New Year Resolutions For Health And Wellness
1. Make It Achievable
This is a very obvious tip but it’s one that some people don’t really consider when making their new year’s resolution list. In order to gauge whether or not your goals are actually achievable, write down the steps that you will take to achieve them.
Let’s take an example of a 40 year old person who makes a New Year’s Resolution to lose 50 pounds. If that person thinks that they’re going to easily lose that much weight and get back the body they had when they were 25, obviously this is a goal that in 90% of people is completely unachievable. Why? Because it places an immense amount of immediate stress and targets a much more long-term goal.
However, setting a more realistic short-term goal that focuses on losing the first 10 pounds, is a great resolution. It’s much more user-friendly and realistic. The smart approach is to set both long-term goals, say the 50 pounds, with a set of short-term goals as stepping-stones to get there.
Write down the steps that will get you to your goal. Be honest with yourself when considering whether or not you are actually going to be able to achieve it.
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2. Daily Intention Setting & Self-Hypnosis
Once you have decided on exactly what your New Year resolutions for health and wellness are going to be, start to remind yourself of them every day. This helps to program yourself for success. Write down what your goals and post them in at least five places around your home. That way you’ll see them and be reminded of them every day. This will help you to stay on track and not forget what you promised yourself you would achieve.
Also, every single morning of every single day visualise success. You can do this in bed when you wake up or you can spend 5 minutes doing this once you have gotten out of bed and organised all of the morning tasks to be done. Find a spot where you can be alone for 5 minutes and visualise yourself having already achieved your goal.
- Feel the feelings of accomplishment and happiness at having achieved your goal.
- Imagine how you will feel and think at that point in your life
- Make the visualisation extremely rich in sensation, meaning imagine all the senses at work. Think about what you will hear, what you will see and how you will feel. Imagine how proud you can be letting everybody know that you achieved your goal. Also imagine how happy other people will be for you
This is an extremely powerful way of programming your brain for success. It will begin to believe that you have already achieved your goal and it will transform your body and thoughts in accordance with that.
3. Join Forces
Another way to help you to achieve your goal is to join forces with a friend or family member who also want to make New Year resolutions for health and wellness. Being able to offer each other support and encouragement will give you more motivation to stick to your plans and achieve success. Just make sure that the person you choose to join forces with also has a high level of motivation to achieve their goal. This will guarantee that you both get the support you need.
4. Tell Everyone What You’re Going To Do
Tell everyone that you know what your New Year’s resolutions list. Doing this will mean that if you fail your resolution you are going to have to explain to everyone that you know, one by one, how and why you failed. And no-one likes to admit defeat. Make the thought of failure so uncomfortable that you have no choice but to continue working towards your goal.
5. Make A Bet
Once you have given yourself a realistic target, find your loudest and most obnoxious friend. Then make a monetary bet with this person. Tell them that you’ll stick to your resolution and achieve your aim, or else you will have to pay him/her $100.
This is a sure-fire way of boosting your motivation. However, make sure that the amount of money you bet is going to cause you to want to avoid losing the bet. If $100 is not a lot of money to you then try $500 or even $1000. The fact that you made this bet with your most obnoxious friend will make you want to achieve your goal even more. No one wants to lose a bet that they will have to hear about repeatedly every time you meet with that person!
Another way of doing this is to give a trusted friend or family member the money up front. Tell that if you fail your resolution then they can keep the money; otherwise, they have to give it back to you when you achieve success.
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So there you have 5 simple but powerful tips to help you keep your new year resolutions for health and wellness. Put all of them to work and you’ll have the highest possible amount of motivation for staying on track.
Making a resolution, a promise to ourselves that we are going to do something different than we have done in the past can be a challenge. Statistics show that by the end of the first week, 25% of people have given up and gone back to their pre-resolution ways. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Download my free report, How To Stick With Your Fitness Resolutionsto see how sticking to your promise doesn’t have to be like a prison sentence.
