Time for a Reset?

​Goals were set last month with new revamped energy from ringing in the new year. Now, in February, have your goals become harder to stick to? Maybe finding it hard to maintain the goals you set forth with great intentions. Maybe you feel as though you fell off the bandwagon relating to your health goals- and now there’s no hope. What if I told you that resetting your intentions and resetting your routine is easier than the first time that you did it?
 
We make goals because we see how one act or habit, or lifestyle change can shift our lives in the direction we envision it. Here are a few steps in how to reenergize your goals, bring them new light, and help make them stick.
 
Revisit your written down goals – Take a new fresh pen and paper to your goals rewrite them and for each goal add WHY you want to make that goal happen. Are you trying to reach 8K steps a day to help minimize your risk of heart disease and other chronic illnesses so you can live longer and enjoy more beach days, stay feeling young, fit into some jeans better, or thrive with your grandchildren? Whatever your reason is, write it down with your goal, because your purpose is larger than your routine or many other obstacles you may face.
 
Reflect on what happened – What became difficult for you to maintain when facilitating change into your days? For me, there were unaccounted for stressors that I did not properly time manage, there for did not properly energy manage. When waking up at 5am to workout is my goal, but I found myself stressed doing work and awake at 11:14pm, it became difficult for me to manage my energy expenditures properly. I took time to reflect and create hard rules to help me maintain my goals…
 
Create some rules – After reflecting, you can probably think of a few things that derailed you and your aspirations to meet a goal. Now, just like if you were a teacher wanting a better functioning classroom environment, you create rules to follow. Create rules to maintain an environment for yourself to make things happen. My new hard rule: no screen time past 7pm, therefore no stressing about school, emails, or other obligations that can wait till morning. Maybe your hard rule is to eat at home more so healthier options are more available and easier or eating your lunch undistracted, so you have time for a lunch break walk.
 
Let’s spice it up now – Is there something on your mind that you feel you forgot or neglected when creating your goals? Something you heard a friend was incorporating into their routine that sounds appealing to you? ADD IT to your goals! New workout class came out in your town that you want to try? ADD IT to your goals! There’s never a better time than now to add goals to better yourself.
 
This reflection on the month of January and meeting intended goals is an opportunity you can utilize regularly. Hiccups happen, long weeks happen, sickness happens, your goals will wait but how long will you wait to work towards them and accomplish them. Set them with intention and know you have the determination, grit, and integrity to become the person you envision through your action steps.  

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