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Is your New Year's resolution losing its fizzle? Discover the 3 key factors that'll increase
your odds of success with any goal you may be setting.
Stay tuned. Pick up any self-help or personal development
book today and you'll hear the same misleading advice.
Just take massive action to arrive at any goal that you choose to accomplish.
If you've ever attended a motivational seminar or watched an inspirational speaker on TV
you'll see them getting the crowd worked up as they run around like a hamster on a treadmill.
Yes I'm talking about you. Granted, taking action to start your new endeavor
is one of the first steps to realizing your desires.
However, it needs to be placed in the whole context of the change process.
Before we discuss the 3 key factors that'll increase your success allow me the set the
stage. Many fibromyalgia survivors look at the start
of the New Year as an opportunity to try something new in reducing or decreasing the negative
effects of their fibro symptoms. Whether it be to go to the gym, eat healthier,
take up meditation, or change one's sleep routine they start off with renewed enthusiasm
and re-kindled motivation to get going. You may have even decided to do an entire
make-over of yourself - doing everything on the above list and more.
Why not? You've got the desire.
That passion is burning deep within you now because it is the start of a new you.
So off you go to the gym, the grocery store, or book store taking massive action to move
towards your goals quickly. If the success gurus are advocating that you
get up and get going then this has to be the best approach.
Wrong! You may start off with a *** in taking that
massive action to get started. However, this quickly wanes at an alarming
rate. In Jeremy Dean's book Making Habits, Breaking
Habits he references a 1986 habit change study on New Year's resolutions by the University
of Scranton. He goes on to say that the numbers are a little
depressing. Almost a 1/4 of people had admitted failure
after only a week about 1/2 had dropped out over a month and only 40% reported sticking
to their New Year's resolution for 6 months. Not very encouraging.
So why is it that so many of us fail to follow through on our good intentions?
The answer is simple, yet a bit more challenging to implement.
When you select a specific goal or New Year's resolution to accomplish you're in fact deciding
to make changes to your current habits and behaviors.
The new routines that you establish for yourself are those positive habits that you want to
instill replacing the old non-supportive ones. Your challenge is in realizing that habit
change is best achieved when you make small consistent adjustments to your current routines
over time. Taking massive action is not going to create
that lasting permanent change that you desire. It's the ongoing commitment & patience of
taking 1 small supportive step each day or week.
True - taking massive action does help in the initial habit change process as it taps
into your motivational drive and initial resolve to get things done.
Taking action is a key ingredient to realizing any goal.
There's no denying that. However, it's the type of action that you
take over time that's going to increase your chances of successfully achieving your objective.
That type of action is in the form of small changes on a regular consistent basis.
Here are 3 key factors to keep in mind: First, pick only 1 major habit that you would
like to change working on that 1 behavior until it becomes engrained into your routine.
Try to select something that strongly resonates with you as a core desire to have - be - or
accomplish. Second, start the habit change process by
selecting 1 small behavior that you could introduce to replace a non-supportive one.
For example, packing some nutritious snacks the night before going to work might have
you eating healthier down the road. And third, be patient with your progress.
Some habits like drinking a glass of water first thing in the morning might only take
several weeks to create. On the other hand, going from an armchair
athlete to participating in a Fibromyalgia Awareness Walk could take months.
Go easy on yourself should you regress from time to time.
What small step could you take today that would eventually replace a non-supportive
habit with a supportive one? Fibromyalgia is a marathon.
Let's train for it - one small step at a time. Should you like to learn more about those
things that you could do to minimize your fibromyalgia symptoms then visit us at Treating-Fibromyalgia.com.
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