How To Actually Stick To Your New Year’s Resolutions
Ah, the time is upon you again to get to work achieving your new year’s resolutions. This can be exciting but also filled with stress and pressure. Business insider says that only 19% of people stick to their goals and 23% quit after one week!
Why is it so hard to stick to your new year’s resolutions and why are so many people quitting so early?
In my opinion, there are many reasons why people are quitting on their goals so early to never revisit them until the following year. Here are 7 tips on how to stick to your new year’s resolutions this year so that you have your best year yet!
How to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions
1. Change Your New Year’s Resolution to a Lifestyle Habit
When you try to start something as a resolution, it is signaling that it isn’t yours yet. Via the law of attraction, you are chasing this new resolution that you don’t know if you’ll be able to achieve.
But if you make it a lifestyle habit, then you already have it. You are embodying this thing as part of your lifestyle and are more likely to stick with it. You also know that you may have ups and downs and not be perfect.
For example, I consider myself a healthy eater. I didn’t use to be but have developed this new lifestyle after going through some internal changes. I’d say I eat healthy 80% of the time and I eat bad 20% of the time. But I still consider my lifestyle as a healthy one. If I was trying to eat healthy as a new year’s resolution, then I might think I failed because I am not eating healthy 100% of the time. But I know that in general, my lifestyle is a healthy one.
Do you see how making it a part of your lifestyle puts different energy into it? It eases some of the pressure that you get when you try to resolve it in one year.
2. Take the Pressure Off of Yourself by Focusing on Your Daily Habits
If you are trying to focus on the end result of your goal, then you may be disappointed. You don’t have much control over the end result.
However, you do have control over what you do every day. The things you do every day will change the end result, however, it may look different than what you think.
End results take time to form. If you don’t see it changing as fast as you want, you may give up early and quit because you aren’t seeing the results you want. But, if you are focused on what you are doing and your daily rituals and habits, the end result will eventually change.
It’s different for everyone how long it will take, but one day you will notice it. When you are in the middle of anything is can be hard to see the changes. But if you stick to your habits, it will be visible to you one day.
Compare it to a weight loss journey. If you change your habits and begin to eat healthier, you won’t likely look any different after losing the first 5 pounds. But, 4 months later after you’ve lost 20 pounds you will notice, and others will notice.
All of a sudden, your clothes will be too big on you, you will feel much skinnier, and people will compliment you. It will appear to have come out of the blue, but it took 4 months of hard work behind the scenes to make it happen.
Your daily habits create an end result and by focusing on what you can do every day, you will achieve that end result.
3. Don’t Try to Part the Red Sea
Many people get really excited about setting new years resolutions and want to do it all! I get it. But trying to literally change everything about your life can be extremely challenging. So instead of trying to do the impossible (like Moses did when he parted the Red Sea), why not stick to one or two things that are the most important to you.
It is much easier to pick one or two things to work on than 10 things. If you spread your energy too thin, trying to do it all then when you get to the end of your year, you won’t have accomplished anything.
Whereas, if you pick one or two things that you actually stick to, when you get to the end of your year you can be proud of your accomplishments. The following year you can pick new things to work on. But trying to do everything will simply leave you overwhelmed and burned out.
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4. Notice Your Subconscious Beliefs Rising to the Surface
When thinking about how to stick to your new year’s resolutions, you want to consider what your limiting beliefs are. They can prevent you from achieving your new year’s resolutions or any goal for that matter. These beliefs are often developed during childhood and as an adult, they are asking you to look at them from a different perspective.
When you are trying to achieve something and your beliefs pop in to tell you all the reasons why you can’t, ask them if this is really true? If this a fact or is it something that you learned from various people growing up that no longer serves you?
If they no longer serve you, then throw them away. You can create new beliefs. But first of all, recognize your limiting beliefs and then choose a different thought. If you keep choosing different thoughts, eventually that will become your reality.
A belief is simply a thought you keep thinking. So, think a different thought and you will change that belief. It doesn’t happen overnight. But with time you will be able to shift your old limiting beliefs to new, empowering ones.
5. Don’t Try to Be Perfect
It’s completely normal to go through ups and downs when working on your new year’s resolutions. Everyone has times where they don’t do as good as they want to.
What separates those that fail from those that succeed is that the ones who fall down, get right back up. They know that they will have some failures and they don’t beat themselves up if they mess up.
If you are trying to be perfect and give up when you aren’t perfect, then you’ll always be chasing after your goal. No one is perfect and expect to have days where you don’t do good. Expect to have days that are wasted and where you take 2 steps back instead of moving forward. This is part of being human and there’s nothing wrong with it. The important thing is that you get back up and get back to it the next day.
6. Embody the Energy of Who You Want to Be
As we move more into 5D consciousness, doing will be less of a priority, and being will be focused on more. Who do you want to be this next year? Take some time to journal it down and then embody that version of yourself.
7. Believe in Yourself
The most important part of how to stick to your new year’s resolutions this year is to believe in yourself. Just because you haven’t done something before, it doesn’t mean you won’t be able to do it this year.
This year and the years following are bringing in many different energies than you’ve never experienced on the planet before. These energies are helping you to manifest quicker and step into the energy of who you want to be and what you want to do in the world. If you believe in yourself, then these energies will co-create with you that which you want.
Final Thoughts – How to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions
Many people fail at their new year’s resolutions because they put too much pressure on themselves. They try to do too much and spread themselves thin.
This year, why not try to be kinder and more loving with yourself? If you mess up, instead of judging it as bad, see it as part of the process. Turn this year’s new year’s resolution into a lifestyle goal. This way, you are more likely to stick with it as it’s part of your lifestyle and not something you are trying on for this year only.
The energy on Gaia is changing and so is the way you create your reality. You will find yourself manifesting quicker as the energies speed up into higher vibrational energy. So, take advantage of the newness that is coming in as it is not like before.
~Meghan
