Why New Year Resolutions Don’t Work

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Resolutions don’t work for 4 reasons.1. They’re all about what you think you should do.Typically a resolution is based on what you think you should be doing, rather than what you really want to be doing.Too often, resolutions are decided upon by looking at other peoples expectations or by reading a magazine that tells you how to ‘get fit by summer’. 2. Resolutions are like goals.Some resolutions are like goals in that they’re about getting more of something. The problem is that as soon as you set yourself a goal you’re saying to yourself that you want more in your life than you have right now. The very nature of goals make you look forwards at what’s next, never at what you’ve got right now.Goals have the tendency to make you feel less-than, because there’s something you don’t have now that you aspire to have in the future. Goals introduce a gap between where you are and where you’d like to be, which instantly makes part of where you are right now a place you don’t want to be – and this is how the very nature of having goals can hurt your self-confidence and self-esteem. 3. There’s no motivation or commitment.The problem is that you’re taking something that doesn’t mean anything to you and trying to make it happen. What you need is something more fundamental, more central and more important to you. What you need is something that comes from the inside, something that’s based on what’s important and what matters most to you.That’s the only way to get behind it, have confidence in it and keep the motivation and commitment going. 4. The timing’s all wrong.Not only are you coming off the back of the holidays and getting back to the harsh realities of the world, but you see the whole of the year stretching ahead of you and summer’s a whole 6 months away.And what kind of

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