With the New Year just around the corner comes a new opportunity to reinvent yourself and cut out any bad habits. If you’re concerned that you won’t be able to stick to your resolution, there’s a lot in your corner this time around the sun: 2020 isn’t just a new year, it’s a new decade altogether! This blog is your guide to staying on top of your resolution and provides steps to take to make your new habit a permanent practice.
Big Dreams, Small Steps
If you knock out your resolutions one piece at a time instead of trying to do everything cold turkey, you’re much more likely to accomplish your goals and stick with your habits as they become a permanent part of your life. Running a marathon in record time may sound like a dream to you, but even champion runners will tell you that it’s more important to finish than to place. Regardless of what your resolution is, remember this: it will always be easier to accomplish a number of small milestones than one enormous one.
The Power of Why
Whether your resolution is about learning to play a new instrument or starting a meditation routine with yoga, the reason why you’re doing it is even more important than what it is you’re doing. When you hit a point where you’re ready to fall back into your old ways, keep the original why in mind.
Running one extra mile may sound like enough to make you toss your sneakers in the trash and never look back, but remembering how proud of yourself you’ll be a year from now will make every bit of running, baking, cooking, and strumming worth it.
All or Nothing or Some
With a New Year’s Resolution, it’s important to keep in mind that you don’t need to be in an “all or nothing” mindset. If you only managed to run fifteen minutes one day instead of thirty, that’s still something to celebrate!
Patting yourself on the back every once in a while and celebrating your progress is an important part of making your journey feel like it’s worth it. Because when you arrive at your destination, you’ll realize that it was! A New Year’s Resolution may make you feel healthier or happier, but no matter what, it’ll be something you’re proud you did. For more ways to make the New Year exciting, be sure to Like Lennar on Facebook.
