Did you make any new year's resolutions? Or didn't you bother in the end?
For most of setting new year's resolutions is a bit like reading a personal development book or going on a seminar. A week later life and work take over and we forget about the changes!
To make a change things have got to get too painful to stay the same!
But once we need to change what do we do? We go for BIG even MASSIVE change. And we fail don't we?
So this year why not change just one small thing?
Cut out one pudding a week. Drop one packet of crisps a week. Cut out one coffee a day. Make 6 packets of cigarettes last 7 days. Go for a five minute walk every day.
Prove to yourself that change is possible. Prove to yourself that change is easy. Prove to yourself that you can change.
Then when you're ready to make a big change you can make a really good New Year'sResolution: Call Julie!
P.s My resolution is to blog more often! Let's see how THAT goes!
Showing posts with label small changes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label small changes. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 January 2014
Friday, 16 November 2012
Tips for weight loss - one step at a time
There are lots of websites out there with tips for losing weight aren't there? Have you read them all? Really? Have you done what they say? Really?
Most people have done one or two things once or twice, maybe for a few days. And if they are not completely successful they give up trying - they teach themselves how to fail!
I was having a discussion only yesterday with a couple of people about vitamins and supplements. They both admitted they'd tried a few things for a few weeks then given up. Yesterday I had a potential client call and tell me all the ways he'd tried to stop smoking - well tried for a few days at a time!
Well what if you could just take one step at a time? Literally and metaphorically?
What if you stopped trying and actually did something?
Here's the plan.
1. Use smaller plates. Ok you've heard it before I know - but have you done it? Psychologically we don't like waste (there are starving children you know!) so we eat everything on the plate! Using a smaller plate means you will eat less. Simple!
2. Take one step at a time. Yes I mean a step. Not a lift, a step. Walk up and down the stairs! At work instead of using the lift. Go up a flight of stairs to the toilet rather than using the ones on your floor. At home run up and down stairs just for the hell of it!
3. Oh no...too much information. Do 1 and 2 first - I'll share 3 and 4 with you tomorrow!
www.breakthehabit.co.uk
Most people have done one or two things once or twice, maybe for a few days. And if they are not completely successful they give up trying - they teach themselves how to fail!
I was having a discussion only yesterday with a couple of people about vitamins and supplements. They both admitted they'd tried a few things for a few weeks then given up. Yesterday I had a potential client call and tell me all the ways he'd tried to stop smoking - well tried for a few days at a time!
Well what if you could just take one step at a time? Literally and metaphorically?
What if you stopped trying and actually did something?
Here's the plan.
1. Use smaller plates. Ok you've heard it before I know - but have you done it? Psychologically we don't like waste (there are starving children you know!) so we eat everything on the plate! Using a smaller plate means you will eat less. Simple!
2. Take one step at a time. Yes I mean a step. Not a lift, a step. Walk up and down the stairs! At work instead of using the lift. Go up a flight of stairs to the toilet rather than using the ones on your floor. At home run up and down stairs just for the hell of it!
3. Oh no...too much information. Do 1 and 2 first - I'll share 3 and 4 with you tomorrow!
www.breakthehabit.co.uk
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