Focus on the positives

On a similar note, Fortis Therapy and Training founder and managing director Alexis Powell-Howard suggests writing down what you have done so far to meet your resolutions, as opposed to focusing on what you haven’t achieved yet. Seeing everything written down on paper, as small as you think it may be, is an important way of avoiding negative self-talk, she says. “[It can] encourage us to continue working towards goals, especially if they seem out of reach.” The aim is to focus on what we have done, rather than getting bogged down in our own perceived inadequacies.

Get real about your resolutions

There’s no point putting time and energy into resolutions that no longer make sense for you. Summer Jupp and Zinzi Miller-Blake, holistic practitioners and co-founders of Ark, suggest taking a moment to ask yourself: “Are these resolutions still relevant to the version of you sat here today, this week or this month?

“Simply setting a resolution doesn’t (and shouldn’t) make us restrict our future growth,” they add. “We always follow the rule: reflect on the present moment, look into the future (so to speak) and then go back and assess your resolutions.”

Don’t be afraid to scale back or simplify

We might also have set ourselves goals that are simply unrealistic – and when we can’t meet that standard, our motivation inevitably drops. To tweak your resolutions slightly to make them more achievable, Karlstedt suggests asking yourself: “How likely you are to be able to do something today on a scale of zero to 10, where zero means not likely at all and 10 means you could get up right now and do it without any hesitation.” The actions you need to take to achieve your resolutions, she adds, ideally should be ones that we can rate at a 7 or above on that scale. So no signing up for a marathon if you’re yet to complete Couch to 5k.

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