Why do people seem to have the same resolutions year after year? Well, the better question is why do people resolve to change anyway? “Resolve” has such an emotional feeling about it. For me, it’s a combination of disgust, reluctance, annoyance, and disdain. So, I prefer to make new year’s determinations instead. In this episode, you’ll find out the compelling reason why you should determine your future instead of resolve to it, too.
Episode Highlights
01:09 How do you feel when you hear the word “resolution?” What happens in your body and does it make you motivated or just annoyed?
02:34 I enjoy calling my goals my determinations now because it makes me feel more like a queen in my life instead of a victim of my ambition
03:08 How this way of thinking is helping me accomplish my health goals this year with a lot more gusto and joy
05:56 To determine what I need to do next, I have to come to terms with what I am actually doing now
07:26 It is so much easier for me to have small goals that encompass the big ones so that my determination can come true
08:04 What does the person who has already accomplished my goal do every day? Working backwards really helped me determine what actions I needed to start taking now to ensure that I get to that point
08:46 We should give ourselves the proper amount of time to accomplish our goals because we can’t realistically get from 0 to 100 in one step. It most likely takes 100 steps, and that’s OK
10:17 I learned that allowing myself to indulge once in a while is key to sticking to my goals, because anything I denied myself, I would only crave more of and eventually sabotage my own progress
10:50 We are allowed to make mistakes on our journey, and we should know that we are going to face setbacks and mistakes and it doesn’t mean anything about our ability to achieve our goals AT ALL
11:16 Accomplishing any goal happens by making more decisions that are in alignment with our goal than decisions that are out of alignment with our goal, and we can choose either way
13:16 How we get there is not by aiming for the entire pie in one go, but by celebrating tiny micro-improvements along the way until we look back and notice that everything has already changed
13:29 Reaching my goal of hitting 10,000 steps per day has blown my mind because I never imagined I could find it easy, but by tackling it in very tiny stages I now wonder how I ever thought it was impossible for me. I have crushed this
13:59 It’s beautiful to release beating ourselves up for not achieving at a high level every single day
14:34 There’s no doubt in my mind that I will achieve everything on my list of determinations, but it might take the time it takes, and it isn’t my job to force or rush things
15:16 It is important to me to make my goals sustainable and not just attainable. It means more to me to have changed myself fundamentally than to have pushed myself to do something once that I can’t or never want to repeat again
18:22 Achieving what I set out to achieve gives me so much inspiration and energy towards tackling the next step of my goal and gives a lot of satisfaction, too
19:49 In the past I would pick a goal but have no vision for what it looked like to have achieved it. So, I didn’t know what I w
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