How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution
Another year. Another January 1st. Another chance to make a resolution. Here are some tips to making your movement, exercise, or work out resolution sustainable:
Be Realistic
If you make your goal something like exercise every single day and you’ve never done that before in your life, then you’re setting yourself up to fail. Keep your goal realistic by starting small. Start with a reasonable once or twice per week and add a day by mid-February or March 1st if you can.
Choose a Day
If you’re starting a new workout plan or a new exercise class, choose a day and make that class time a priority. In fact, imagine your hour long exercise time as if it were a meeting for work, or just a notch below the importance of your children’s recital. If someone invites you out that night say you can’t go and schedule a different night.
Be Careful About Who You Tell
Sometimes telling people that you are starting something new, especially something that’s just for you, turns those people evil. They’ll be there when you fail to make it to class and they’ll notice if and when you slip up. Some of them will even tempt you away from you resolution because—for whatever reason—the thought of you doing something for yourself threatens them. Avoid these soul suckers and do your thing.
This Is for You
Unless you’re a famous celebrity who can afford to hire an in-house personal trainer that will wake you from your sleep and bark at you until you get moving, nobody is going to exercise for you. Only you can do this. And you can do it!
It’s Not Selfish
For some people, taking time out for exercise feels selfish. It’s not. By doing something for yourself you are taking care of your body and mind. That shows and it influences other people to do the same. Your kids will learn positive habits from watching you be good to yourself.
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