Today is Ditch Your New Year’s Resolutions Day.<\/p>\n
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions personally.\u00a0 But a lot of folks do.\u00a0 While well intended, most resolutions are far too lofty to ever be successful.<\/p>\n
If you haven’t worked out in 3 years but resolve to start going to the gym every day there’s almost a 100% chance you will fail. Same thing if everyone in Starbucks knows you by name but you resolve to stop coffee cold turkey.\u00a0 Same thing if you haven’t finished a book since high school but resolve to read one a week.<\/p>\n
I’m not suggesting that self-improvement is a bad thing.\u00a0 I have a small bookstore’s worth of self-improvement books in my own home and I’ve read most of them.\u00a0 \u00a0But putting up a new calendar doesn’t mean you are going to become an entirely new person.\u00a0 \u00a0Any goal you set, regardless of what day of the year you set it, needs to be realistic.\u00a0 Setting impossible goals only sets yourself up for failure and disappointment.<\/p>\n
If you want to get into better physical shape set up a calendar\/ schedule of going to the gym, say two times a week for a month.\u00a0 Then if that goes well bump it up to three days a week after that.\u00a0 If you want change an unhealthy eating habit allow for “cheat days” and figure out in advance what you will do to stave off cravings and\/ or avoiding triggers for eating whatever you want to no longer consume.<\/p>\n
Love yourself.\u00a0 Cut yourself some slack.\u00a0 And ditch those hangover\u00a0made resolutions once and for all!<\/p>\n
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Today is Ditch Your New Year’s Resolutions Day. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions personally.\u00a0 But a lot of folks do.\u00a0 While well intended, most resolutions are far too lofty to ever be successful. If you haven’t worked out in 3 years but resolve to start going to the gym every day there’s almost a 100% chance you will fail…. Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","category-its-all-love"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t