Weight loss and New Year’s Resolution -Part 1
by Dr. Coach Love
I’m thinking about making a New Year’s resolution to lose weight, but my girlfriend says not to waste my time. Nobody ever keeps resolutions. How does anybody find success with a New Year’s resolution?
________________________________________________________________
Making a New Year’s resolution is no different from setting goals throughout the year. Yet one of the basic reasons that resolutions made at the year’s beginning are sometimes less successful is that the goals chosen fall into 4 common losing thinking and feeling positions.
1.You have forever procrastinated on this goal— so you grudgingly take it on as a ritual beginning to the year. When you start off thinking, “nothing ventured, nothing gained”, the ill planned venture usually gains nothing.
2. If the resolution, like losing weight, is vaguely expressed, there are no interim markers for success. You must be able to measure different stages of success. Success in small quantities is STILL success. Small success is fuel for larger success.
3. If the resolution is too large in scope, it is unrealistic. You set yourself up for failure. It is better to break up larger goals into smaller units of success.
4. If the resolution is made out of guilt or at someone’s suggestion, you are unlikely to stick to it. The emotions of lack of confidence, laziness, defeat, and low energy overtake any temporary commitment you may have felt.
Have any of the loser positions above lead to your dropping out on a New Year’s Resolution in the past?
Work on eliminating these loser starting blocks and check back for more ideas on forming a New Year’s Resolution that builds for success. What do you think?
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Regards,
Dr. Coach Love
MORE INFO LINKS: Archives-8/02/08, 8/05/08, 8/09/08
v I invite your comments below.
v E-mail your relationship coaching questions to DrCoachLove@HireCoach.com.
v Questions selected will be edited as needed to reflect privacy,
brevity, clarity, and general interest.
v Sorry, Dr. Coach Love is unable to offer any personal advice through this blog.
v Check out relationship coaching services at www.HireCoach.com.
© Copyright 2008 P.H. Pickett, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
Contact DrCoachLove@HireCoach.com for permissions.
