Ditch Your New Year’s Resolution Before January 1!

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I’ve been going to the gym consistently for over 10 years. Every January the cardio room is packed with new members and by February it’s empty again. Why do we torture ourselves with New Year’s Resolutions when we know we’ll never stick to them? What a way to feel bad about ourselves at the beginning of the year! Do yourself a favor: forget about the resolutions and embrace a new way of bettering yourself this year.

Why don’t resolutions work? For various reasons: we don’t know how to hold ourselves accountable, our fears clock in and we quit, we don’t see evidence of change fast enough and we quit, we don’t start with small steps and get overwhelmed quickly. We don’t have the proper support set in place.

Try creating an intention this year. By creating an intention, you have an overall focal point for the year that you can return to again and again. For instance, this year I decided to be more compassionate to myself. There was no goal, there was just the solution: compassion was my solution to those times in my year when I beat myself up or felt bad. Ask yourself what you really want, what you really need. Your heart knows. Ask yourself over and over “What do I want? And if I had that, then what would I have? And then what would I have if I had that?” You’ll find your answer in no time.

Once you have your intention, then you can support it by choosing different ways to act on it. For instance, if your intention is to love yourself more, you get to define how you do that: from getting more hugs to journaling your thoughts and feelings every morning. And when you find yourself in a place of not knowing what to do, you can ask yourself “How can I be more loving to myself in this moment?” and perhaps you’ll have your answer.

Using intentions rather than resolutions keeps you from beating yourself up if you fall back. You get to continually find ways to stay true to your intention and no matter what you do to support that intention you’re still living in a more empowered way. So it doesn’t matter that you missed the gym, you took a nice hot bath and slathered your skin with soothing lotion. You’re still true to your intention!

The final part of keeping an intention is to acknowledge yourself: at the end of the year write down 100 ways you supported your intention. Get to a place where you feel good about all of the good things you did all year long. And you can keep that same intention next year or choose a new one!

Jeanette Meierhofer, CFLC, is a Personal Life Coach. She invites you to take her mini-course on the mistakes people make in the self help world.

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