How To Create The New You In The New Year - Daily Blog 047

Its already the last day of the year, you want to improve your life, but the majority of people drop their resolutions within the first month. What can we do to make sure the "new us" sticks for the full year? There are a lot of tactics floating around the internet from productivity hacks to living intentionally, but it's our job to do. Now is the time to drop the research and hit the ground running with full enthusiasm.

Habits

Habits are ingrained in our day today. They are habits because we do them every single day without much thought. Forming new habits will make achieving our new year resolutions much easier in the long run. This is because our brains use habits to save brain power for more important tasks throughout the day. Most of our habits we developed without us consciously knowing; this is especially true for all the bad habits in our life.

I'd be surprised if anyone wanted to form a bad habit.

The biggest problem with habits is how delicate they are even though they are mighty and can change our lives. To destroy a good habit takes merely a bit of slacking off and next thing we know we are on a slippery slope.

The holidays do this to me. Every year around the last two weeks of December my wife and I end up with a ton of sugary foods, high card meals with family, and weekday wine. All of which I avoid like the plague the other eleven and a half months of the year.