It May Not Be Over, But It"s Close! How To Rescue Those New Year"s Resolutions!
It's Almost February, How Are You Doing? By now, most of those nice and shiny New Year's Resolutions are dead and buried or are at least limping.
By the end of the month, more than half of them will be in the trash, and they will be a serious sore spot that no one will want to bring up.
If you feel as if you are way behind, there is still hope, and plenty of opportunities to turn things around.
Failure doesn't have to be an option, especially if that is not what you want.
Making changes is not only hard, but it is a practice that requires support, real will power, and a strong desire and a refusal to quit.
If you don't have this or something similar to it, you sealed the deal before you even started.
The great news is we can get you back on track if you are willing to give it a go again, and you are serious about doing what it will take to get what you want, only this time we are going to do it the right way.
Here are some tips that will help you as you move back into the right direction.
Don't look back.
The worse thing we can do is beat up on ourselves, and start hauling the insults.
You are not the only one who fell off the wagon, and you aren't perfect.
The most important thing is you didn't give up.
Keep moving, and make a commitment to the process again, without focusing on the failures of your past.
Find Out The Cause.
I can not tell you how many people fail because they didn't consider their reality when they developed their goals.
Take the time to dissect the situation, not to beat up on yourself, but instead to learn.
Perhaps your workout plan didn't work because you were to ambitious, and didn't give yourself any room for the unpredictable.
Life happens,, and if you set up a plan that didn't have space for life's unexpected moments to show up, you were already traveling in the danger zone.
Pay attention to the causes, did you over eat because you had a bad day at work, or did you eat the wrong thing because your refrigerator was full of foods that would make any person weak in the knees.
Pay attention what didn't work so you can fix it this next go around.
Forgive yourself.
Just because if didn't work out the way you planned, doesn't mean you are a failure, it only means you made a mistake.
Forgive yourself and know that a failure in the past does not equal a failure in your future.
When you forgive yourself, you make room not just for your growth, but also for your success in your future.
You have no idea how freeing forgiveness can be as you move forward.
Forgive yourself, take the information you know, and put it to work as you work on the last two steps.
Go Slow.
When you restart your process do yourself a favor and start slow.
It is better to move slow and keep moving, than it is to go fast, get frustrated, and quit.
Think of it this way, if you lost a pound every week for the next year, you would be around 48 pounds smaller by next year.
When you are taking on the goal, the idea is not speed, but consistency.
If you can create this new habit, you are more likely to succeed, and that is what you ultimately want to see.
The last and final step is simple, take all the information you have, and restructure your plan.
You plan will take you from where you are to where you want to go, so that is structure you need to succeed.
Put your plans together and consider everything you have learned so that this time your plan is not just optimistic, but ironclad, as well.
Develop a plan that makes sense to you, and that you can and will commit to so that the goals you set forth are not just possible, they are almost guaranteed.
You created your New Year's Resolutions because you knew there were some goals that were important for you to reach.
For some of you, they were life altering and life changing, and for some others they were part of a bigger dream.
You have the ability to complete what you started as long as you follow through, make good decisions, and refuse to quit! With a few tweaks in your strategy, you won't just grow and develop, you will be one of the fortune few who finally make your New Year's Resolutions happen!
By the end of the month, more than half of them will be in the trash, and they will be a serious sore spot that no one will want to bring up.
If you feel as if you are way behind, there is still hope, and plenty of opportunities to turn things around.
Failure doesn't have to be an option, especially if that is not what you want.
Making changes is not only hard, but it is a practice that requires support, real will power, and a strong desire and a refusal to quit.
If you don't have this or something similar to it, you sealed the deal before you even started.
The great news is we can get you back on track if you are willing to give it a go again, and you are serious about doing what it will take to get what you want, only this time we are going to do it the right way.
Here are some tips that will help you as you move back into the right direction.
Don't look back.
The worse thing we can do is beat up on ourselves, and start hauling the insults.
You are not the only one who fell off the wagon, and you aren't perfect.
The most important thing is you didn't give up.
Keep moving, and make a commitment to the process again, without focusing on the failures of your past.
Find Out The Cause.
I can not tell you how many people fail because they didn't consider their reality when they developed their goals.
Take the time to dissect the situation, not to beat up on yourself, but instead to learn.
Perhaps your workout plan didn't work because you were to ambitious, and didn't give yourself any room for the unpredictable.
Life happens,, and if you set up a plan that didn't have space for life's unexpected moments to show up, you were already traveling in the danger zone.
Pay attention to the causes, did you over eat because you had a bad day at work, or did you eat the wrong thing because your refrigerator was full of foods that would make any person weak in the knees.
Pay attention what didn't work so you can fix it this next go around.
Forgive yourself.
Just because if didn't work out the way you planned, doesn't mean you are a failure, it only means you made a mistake.
Forgive yourself and know that a failure in the past does not equal a failure in your future.
When you forgive yourself, you make room not just for your growth, but also for your success in your future.
You have no idea how freeing forgiveness can be as you move forward.
Forgive yourself, take the information you know, and put it to work as you work on the last two steps.
Go Slow.
When you restart your process do yourself a favor and start slow.
It is better to move slow and keep moving, than it is to go fast, get frustrated, and quit.
Think of it this way, if you lost a pound every week for the next year, you would be around 48 pounds smaller by next year.
When you are taking on the goal, the idea is not speed, but consistency.
If you can create this new habit, you are more likely to succeed, and that is what you ultimately want to see.
The last and final step is simple, take all the information you have, and restructure your plan.
You plan will take you from where you are to where you want to go, so that is structure you need to succeed.
Put your plans together and consider everything you have learned so that this time your plan is not just optimistic, but ironclad, as well.
Develop a plan that makes sense to you, and that you can and will commit to so that the goals you set forth are not just possible, they are almost guaranteed.
You created your New Year's Resolutions because you knew there were some goals that were important for you to reach.
For some of you, they were life altering and life changing, and for some others they were part of a bigger dream.
You have the ability to complete what you started as long as you follow through, make good decisions, and refuse to quit! With a few tweaks in your strategy, you won't just grow and develop, you will be one of the fortune few who finally make your New Year's Resolutions happen!
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