New year, new ideas

New year resolutions, come on be honest, have you broken yours yet?

I don’t make resolutions and there are a few reasons why.

January is a really bad month to try and make changes. We are on a downer after the buzz of Christmas, January is the dead of winter, nothing is growing and back in the day, Jan and Feb were the months you would be relying on dried fruits and preserves made in Autumn to survive on.

The dark cold months of winter are our least productive in the work place, we tend to exercise less and eat more comfort food and if your like us, you will still have a few boxes of chocolates and biscuits laying around the house and they are not going to eat themselves!

So, trying to refresh, start a new, start a healthy diet etc, sort of goes against nature. Spring is the natural time to look at growth, fresh starts and new beginnings as our body and mind will be much more receptive to making resolutions work.

So don’t beat yourself up trying to do resolutions just for the sake of it, the next few months will be tough enough with Covid restrictions, lets concentrate on getting through it and getting ready for the Spring and the real start of a new year in nature and in life.

So instead of resolutions in January, why not take a look at your values instead?

Values are not a point to work towards, but these guiding principles will drive everything you do in the coming year and you can build your actions around these as we go through the year.

So this week, why not identify 2 or 3 key values for you and your business and create some actions to help each value become part of your daily life.