Episode 114: Setting New Year’s Resolutions Without The Hype

<span style='font-weight: 400;'>Eating too much sugar? No problem! In January I will cut back.</span> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Not working out? No problem! In January I will hit the gym.</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Postponing our plans for change looks great under the glow of the holiday lights. But when we wake up each year on January 1</span><span style='font-weight: 400;'>st</span><span style='font-weight: 400;'>, hungover from too much celebrating, realizing with dread, that all of our plans for change in the New Year need to magically start RIGHT NOW, it is a very different story. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>All of the plans that we have been putting off until the New Year are suddenly very real and very pressing. We need to get it together and act before our Monger catches on.</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>The deadline had arrived.</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>For people with High Functioning Anxiety, the days leading up to the New Year are days full of possibility. Set the resolution, do the prep work, and, poof like magic, we will be different people. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>No wonder we are so depressed come the first week of January when we realize that the change we want is only going to happen with work and that the work is going to be hard. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>We were so focused on how amazing it would be once the change was done that we didn’t take into account what it would actually take to stop eating sugar or to work out every morning.</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>We didn’t take into account the process of change.  </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Throughout the month of January, we will be discussing this process of change with helpful tips and strategies for making small changes in your life without all the hype. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Today we will be talking about why resolutions are so triggering and what the