Your New Year's Resolutions
Have you started thinking about your New Year's resolutions yet?
The new year is a time that our brains naturally start to think about moving forward.
And it can be easy to get caught up in the hype of setting goals and starting afresh.
So we sometimes find ourselves setting some new year goals and then within a few weeks we have completely forgotten to implement them.
And then especially by this time of the year we have completely forgotten what they even were.
If you are inclined to set goals for the new year, or anytime of the year, here's a concept that can change your success rate.
Only set goals for things you are really committed to, and not for things you are just interested in.
Let me explain.
Often we set goals because we're interested in something, like exercise.
You might be really interested and intrigued by having a healthier body.
You might love the idea of getting up early and going to the gym and eventually being able to run a certain distance or lift a certain amount of weight.
But although you're intrigued and think it would be amazing, you're not really committed.
You're not committed to getting to bed an hour earlier than you usually do.
You're not committed to getting out of bed when your alarm goes off.
And so though you may do really great with getting up to exercise for a few weeks, you quickly dwindle off.
Not because you don't like the idea, but because you're not really committed to it.
Commitment means that you're doing it no matter what.
It means you don't make excuses.
It means you don't listen to your primitive brain when it offers you a reason not to do the thing.
Committed means you're all in.
So, at this time of year when your brain is going to want to start thinking about new beginnings, give yourself some time to really decide what you are just interested in, and what you're really committed to.
Being committed, rather than interested, will increase your success rate by a lot.
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