On this first day of the year, you are preparing to make new resolutions, which like every year will be forgotten by the end of January. Lack of motivation, unachievable or too difficult goals, there are many reasons that push you to give up. What if this year was the right year to achieve your new goals?
Interrogates in the columns from News wise, Dr. Julia Bruene, primary care sports physician at Midwest Orthopedics at RUSH (Chicago) spoke about the different New Year’s resolutions, and gave advice on how to keep them. First of all, the expert explains support resolutions that “favor a good health and longer life expectancy.” According to her, the four main resolutions that her patients want to make to take care of their health are: practicing regular physical activity, getting restful sleep, taking steps to manage stress and maintaining social connections to avoid isolation. . She believes that the most important thing is “the way we formulate our resolution.”
5 tips from an expert to keep your good resolutions
Do you want to increase your probability of transforming your new goals into real and lasting behavior change? Here are five tips from Dr. Bruene that will help you get there.
- Set yourself some “approach objectives” which consist of adopting positive behaviors such as “swim twice a week”, or “drink 1.5 L of water every day”. On the contrary, we must avoid “avoidance goals” such as “don’t eat sweets” or “don’t use your phone for more than two hours”. These objectives are intended to extinguish negative behaviors and are most often not kept in the long term.
- Use the SMART method which consists of defining objectives and indicators Sspecific, Mesurable, HASacceptable, Rrealistic and Ttemporally defined.
- Accept your misbehavior if there are any. Taking a wrong step does not mean that it is a failure and that you have to give up everything. Indeed, there is no harm in getting back in the saddle, and making a fresh start after having strayed from your goal. What matters is the end result, your resolution can be kept despite missteps.
- Find a loved one or friend to achieve this good resolution together. If it is, for example, joining the gym or taking regular walks, there is nothing like doing it together to motivate yourself more and stick to your goal over time.
- Share your new goals with someone to which you will have to report on your progress. Preferably choose a person who will be involved in your project, and who will be able to motivate you.
By following all of these tips, keeping your new resolution may seem less difficult.
Source :
- Doctor’s Tips To Make New Year Resolutions Stick, News wise, December 27, 2023