Wishing YOU a Happy New Year!

New year new goals they say???How should we set and keep goals? ?Experts say 9-15% of people successfully keep their New Year’s resolutions.?23-33% people quit by the end of the first week, 65% right after the first month and about 81% before the end of the second year. ?But why? ?People simply are not conditioned to hold themselves accountable and you fall to the level of your habits.?Willpower only goes so far.?Practice incremental improvement toward attainable goals and learn to study recent literature about growth mindset. ?Also, consider an accountability partner or someone to support you as you jump start your New Year’s goals. ?Get the support you need to keep driving towards your goals.

Your commitment to the goal you are trying to achieve needs to resonate and be compelling enough to propel progress so that when you slip you don’t give up. ?If you miss the morning gym class, you committed to in the month of January, go to the afternoon class or pick it back up the next day. ?Life happens, schedules slip, and you sleep in. ?Give yourself grace; changes don’t happen overnight. ?Re-train yourself and slowly build your habits to achieve incremental progress. ?You should better understand why you want to change, make adjustments and why now? ?Be specific and set a few SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely) that may help. ?Set them consistently and make sure you review them regularly and they are realistic yet believable to you.?She who has a why can bear almost any how.?Your mindset is key and that is why your goals need to be aligned with what you value in life.?If your goal is to lose weight think first that you’re the type of person who values health above other uses of time and align your action with what such a person would do.?It doesn’t matter that you’re not at your goal body composition.?What matters is that you think of yourself as the type of person who values this body composition, measure regularly, and sets incremental and achievable goals along with steps to get there.?Learn to count macros and set incremental steps to uplevel your fitness.?Measuring regularly will allow you to see how your progress tracks with the goals you set.?How bad do you want it?

Remember that there is nothing special about January 1st.?Goals are your commitments to yourself, and everything starts with your vision of yourself and how the incremental steps can get you to where you want to go. ?Anything worth achieving in life is generally hard and only those with a solid plan and battle-hardened habits will achieve anything that takes hard work and sacrifice.?Challenge yourself!

May 2023 be your best year yet. ?Set even one goal and hold yourself accountable even if you slip. Sometimes we must set small goals to move towards bigger, better goals. ?I think Aristotle said it best, ‘We are what we repeatedly do.’ ?Go do you and Happy New Year!