Among the top resolutions: eating healthier, starting an exercise plan, and weight training.
Fitness themed and Eating resolutions are the most widely pursued new-year goals - making up over half of the proposed new year's resolutions. All too often these half-hazard commitments are nothing more than half-baked Eating dreams - hopes of accomplishments - never to see the light of implementation.
In a recent study - after just 7 days into the new year - 1/4 of the crowd has already dropped out.
In only a month that drops to nearly half - more declining as the year goes on.
In the end only an estimated 2 out of 10 resolution seekers will stick with it to the end. Why is it that fitness resolutions seem to drop like fly onto flypaper? There are several common mistakes to avoid - that will not only help you to keep on track - but nearly guarantee you stick with your eating resolution until the end!!
A Department of Labor survey asked adults to identify the single biggest issue that prevents them from achieving their new year's resolutions and goals
The top 3 reasons stated were:
Procrastination Lack of discipline Not having a game plan - not knowing what to do.
Let's dive into those a little further.
Procrastinating
Why do today what I can put off until tomorrow type of attitude, wait shouldn't that be the other way around.
New dieters often fail because they never get started with their Eating plan. Continuing with the infamous, "I'll start tomorrow". Keep going with that philosophy and you'll find that infamous tomorrow never comes. After all, tomorrow, is never today.
Make a promise to yourself when you will start your eating plan and stick to it.
Don't say the Smith's are having a party tomorrow so let's wait until tomorrow. Then it's Saturday so might as well begin on Monday. Then Monday comes it's an office party. Tuesday you have a family gathering. Wednesday, oh the week is almost over already so let's just wait until next week. Just get started - NOW.
Lack Of Discipline
Here's a tip - don't do it on your own. Have a positive support system to help you with your Eating In .
In a study of beginning exercisers when people were held accountable they were 20 times more likely to stick with their fitness plan 6 months down the road.
A fitness coach or a friend can be a great help encouraging you along your eating goals and giving you the discipline that you need. Just be sure your support members are not struggling with the same issues and are not willing to commit themselves to such a plan.
No Game Plan
Have a specific eating action plan. Break it down and make it less intimidating - specific action steps. Start your new eating plan slowly - remain consistent and build up on it. Make gradual and permanent changes that you can maintain forever.
Are you familiar with the Chinese language? Did you know there are over 2,000 Chinese characters used in writing?
What if I was to say you have to learn to write and speak Chinese and I want it done by next week. That's the same as losing 100 pounds by next week. Take that same scenario and learn one chinese character a day for 6 days, then review them all on the 7th. Repeat this pattern each week until you learn language. While it would certainly take longer you would surely get it done.
In the end only 20% of fitness resolution and eating goal seekers follow through with their goals.
While we can't wave a magic wand and make a resolution come true, there are easy steps to take that will indeed make it easier and give us a much higher chance to fulfill our promises to ourselves. Get started as soon as possible, have a positive support system, and have a specific eating plan of attack. These 3 simple strategies will see to it that you will be one who is guaranteed to reach your fitness resolution.
Maybe you start moving forward in the direction of better. Maybe you've started using some manifesting tools that you've learned about. You feel good, you know you're moving forward and you're excited about how things will be.
So why is it you can't stay in that forward momentum?
Why is it there always seems to be something that comes up and knock you down and bring you back to the normal you are used to?
Why does it seem so hard to create the positive shifts you are looking for?
It's only hard when you don't realize that there is a process to it. When you think that the challenges are coming up to show you that it's not possible for you to have what you want. When you don't realize that you need to shift internally to become the person you will be when you're living what you want as your reality.
And it's hard when you don't understand what it takes to shift internally to become that person who lives that "better" life as thier reality.
I'll share with you one thing I have come to learn helps this become easier. That has allowed me to stop searching for that "better" life and to instead start living it.
The journey toward that "better" life is really an inward journey from who you are now, who you have been unconsciously, to who you you know you can be.
Yes you take action as well. All the external things will show up, all the actions you need to take, you will take, from that new energy you.
The real journey is internal. And you will be faced with external challenges on this journey. Those external challenges are there on purpose. You are being guided to that "better" place, to being that "better" you. And the challenges that come up are uniquely designed to help you do that.
And when you see the challenges as not something to overcome, but something to help you create that "better" life, to become that "better you", you begin to see how truly supported you are in creating that life.
The Universe wants you to live that life, it is here to fully support you in making it happen. But if you get frustrated and give up because there's a challenge you're telling the Universe you're giving up.
So next time you find a challenge coming up as you move toward this "better" place, ask yourself:
1.What is this situation showing me about how I am now, perhaps that has been unconscious before and doesn't match that "better" life I want to live?
2.In what way could I shift my thinking,energy or way of being to match that "better" person I'll be when I'm living that "better" life?
3.How is this challenge allowing me to become the person who lives that "better" life as her reality?
Don't just respond from your mind. Get quiet. There is an infinite wisdom that is available to all of us, but it comes in stillness, through the mind, but not from the mind. Open to what can be. Be willing to release attachment to struggle. Allow ease. Allow yourself to shift with ease.
Of course, there are times when the challenges are bigger or heavier and you need more powerful tools. And even if you don't have those tools, use this process. Just asking the questions gets the Universe supporting you to find your answers and having you open to overcoming the challenges rather than resisting them.
Moving through these challenges and being willing to grow into the person you need to be to live that "better" life is what I have found is necessary to move to that "better" life. Embrace the journey and what you need can come to you much more easily and moving into that "better" life becomes a reality rather than a dream.
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