Although healthy, many common New Year’s #resolutions such as losing weight or quitting smoking are exercises in self-denial. Instead of punishing yourself with a physical task, How Stuff Works says, make a resolution that’s more about attitude and mental discipline. For example, make up your mind to trust your instincts or stop procrastinating. Forgive someone or make an effort to meet your neighbors. Resolve to take more risks or learn a new skill. Or simply use your existing talents to help others in need; helping just one person is “a good, entry-level way to become a humanitarian,” the site says.
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Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Attainable
Want to keep your New Year’s resolutions? Make them attainable! EcoWatch offers a host of health-conscious suggestions, including eating more unprocessed foods, getting more sleep, cutting down on alcohol, visiting a doctor for a checkup and — perhaps easiest of all — taking a vacation. These resolutions are so simple and sustainable that most people can find ways to satisfy them n an ongoing basis. And one of the keys to creating new-year/new-you success is to experience small successes along the way to a larger, more daunting goal such as losing weight.
Shed Pounds, Donate Clothes
If you’re like many Americans, you might have overindulged during the holiday season and may be toying with the idea of changing some aspect of your behavior by making a New Year’s resolution.
According to Inc., 2019’s top three resolutions are “diet or eat healthier,” exercise more,” and “lose weight.” Runners-up include “save more/spend less,” “quit smoking,” “read more,” and “find another job.”
Any of these resolutions on their own — or any combination of them — is difficult to keep. Most people start too-restrictive diets or overly ambitious workout schedules only to stick with them for just a few weeks.
To increase the likelihood of sticking to your resolution, document your goals, Forbes says. Understand why they’re important to you, and develop a strategy for attaining them. Set a reasonable time frame, and emphasize the progress you make over the minor setbacks that will undoubtedly occur.
If it’s weight loss you want, don’t think that you’ll shed 10 pounds every week. You won’t, feel bad about it, and stray further from your diet. If you want to get more exercise, start slowly so that you don’t hurt yourself and wind up spending more time on the couch recuperating.
Remember to give yourself a reward for reaching an event milestone — cheat a little after a month of dieting or get a massage after your first 5K run. Celebrating such successes can condition you to achieve more.
Healthy resolutions often include an appearance factor, such as fitting into a smaller size pant or dress. The Organizing Blog has a radical suggestion where this concept is concerned: If a garment doesn’t fit now — as you embark on your resolutions — get rid of it.
If you’re anything like us, you’ll find garments you’ve wanted to fit into and wear again that have languished in the back of the closet for years. Edit your wardrobe down to only the essentials that flatter your physique today — the stuff you really wear.
The clothes you’re trying to fit into again are holding you back. Not only do they not fit, but they also may not suit your current style. They represent the old you — not the new you, who sticks to resolutions. Pack them up and contact ClothingDonations.org for a pickup.
Besides, if your current go-to garments start fitting a bit loose in the months ahead, you can reward yourself with a small shopping spree. The new you will need a new look — and that simple reward will help keep you on track to accomplish even more.
Here’s to a happy, healthy 2019!
Keeping the Resolution to Declutter
The new year’s resolution to declutter may be harder to keep than the resolution to go on a diet, the Washington Post says. To succeed, make a list of goals and schedule specific projects. The individual components of your decluttering plan don’t have to be huge; just pick a closet, shelf or drawer to start and spend 30 minutes organizing it. Clearing a horizontal surface such as a kitchen countertop or shelf, for example, will show results right away and motivate you to do more. If you can dedicate a half-hour per day to decluttering, it will add up to more than four full-time workweeks over the year. Make 2019 happy and clutter-free!
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Declutter Throughout the New Year
When you have too many possessions, they can become so overwhelming and all-consuming that they clutter the mind, too. If you want to declutter your surroundings in the new year but don’t know where to begin, Clark.com offers a month-by-month plan that promises to get your home and life in better order by the end of 2019. January is a good time to make an assessment of the things you received as gifts over the holidays, for example. If you haven’t used a gifted item or know that you won’t, now is the time to return, sell or regift whatever it is, or donate it to a worthy charitable organization such as ClothingDonations.org!