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We mentioned yesterday about not just retrying the same approach as you have done in previous years with and New Years resolutions / goals / plans.
Part of the problem people have often had with their previous goal setting is that it’s very easy to get a bit too gung ho!
Setting these, huge, challenging goals………….
Not drinking for a month…………..
Exercising at least three times a week for the whole year…………
No chocolate, cake, etc at work…………
And so on.
Laudable ideas, of course.
But the problem arises in that, as soon as we don’t achieve it once, we feel we’ve “failed”.
The first time we don’t make three workouts in a week or when we have a drink or chocolate……….
We feel that ‘failure’ and ‘write off’ the rest of the day / weekend / week / month / year.
Only to ‘try again’ at some future point.
Setting big goals can have it’s place.
I’ve set some pretty challenging ones for this year.
But I’ve set them in a way that I know works for me.
In ways I’ll cover here and over the next few days.
One of them is to meditate and foam roll my back every day.
365 days is a lot, sure.
But I’ve set a target of a minimum of one minute per day.
Whatever happens is there really every any reason why I can’t spare 2 out of the 1,440 minutes in a day?
Not really – it would just be me choosing not to if I didn’t.
One minute of each won’t do much, I know.
But, chances are, if I do that minute, I might then do 3 or 5 or 10.
I might not.
Worst case scenario I’ve got 60 seconds worth (still six hours worth come the end of the year).
And, perhaps more importantly, I’m creating (and then strengthening) that habit of doing them.
It’s a Minimum Achievable Goal.
That I can over achieve on where possible.
No matter what happens with other things, the only reason I won’t achieve this is if I, essentially, just chose not to do it.
And you can do the same with your goals.
Found you struggle to stick to exercising three times a week in the past?
Aim for at least once.
Is there really ever any reason that you can’t do something physical at least once in 10,080 minutes?
Might not be your first choice, sure.
But something can be done, can it not?
And chance are you’ll over achieve.
Worst case scenario, it’ll still be 52 bits of exercise.
But you’ll have that habit.
It won’t be “Shall I exercise this week?” but “How many times?” and “When?”
Same with eating.
21 healthy meals a week not maintainable?
Aim for 14 plus.
Or one good food shop per week.
Loads of water over-facing?
Try one more glass per day that you usually do?
Not drinking for a month too much?
Set a number of times you know you can definitely limit it to?
You know you better than anyone else.
Find you Minimum Achievable Goal.
Don’t set yourself up for ‘failure’ and ‘writing it off’.
Hit that goal.
Over achieve if you can.
But don’t worry if you can’t 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘Posts” Hall and Matt ‘Keeper’ Nicholson
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