Exercising, working out more and/or getting more cardio in has to be in the top five of New Year’s resolutions. While fulfilling a New Year’s resolution or any kind of resolution is definitely possible to fulfill, many seem to lose the reasoning and motivation they had for making the resolution. How can you successfully meet a resolution? You have to put that resolution on the top or at least close to the top of your list of priorities.
To keep the motivation and momentum to meet a new goal you have to decide what is more important. If you want to get to the gym more that means prioritizing some goals. This may mean getting up at 6am if you want to get a workout in before work. While that is a great goal to set, when that alarm goes off at 6am you will think of any excuse to hit snooze once, twice, or 20 times. What do you prioritize more? Getting up and committing to working out that morning or sleep some more but losing motivation more and more. Priorities.
You may think about going to the gym after work which is just as good. At the end of the day you may very well feel tired and unmotivated to go work out. If you are able to make this goal work, is it sustainable? Can you do this until it becomes a habit?
What makes meeting a goal hard is that it requires sacrifice of some kind and making some hard choices. Sacrifice can come in the form of eating strawberries instead of ice cream. Getting up at 6am instead of sleeping more. Getting up to run in the cold morning when everything in you says the opposite. Priorities.
Set up a small goal to meet today. Starting checking items off your to do list one at a time. One reason a goal is not met is because it seems huge and insurmountable. Start by meeting one realistic goal each day such as waking up 30 minutes earlier in the morning. Once that becomes a habit, move on to another goal and so on.
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