1. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
When it comes to sticking to new years resolutions the majority of
people fail no later than the six week mark. This can be seen
everywhere, the best example of this is in the diet and exercise
sector.

2. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
If you’ve ever gone to the gym over the November to March period
you’ll have noticed a funny thing happen. All though December the
gym seems to get quieter and quieter as people wind down for
Christmas, however, as soon as January hits attendance shoots
though the roof, way higher than any other time of year and as
January comes to an end things slowly start to return to normal again
until about the middle of February when they normalise again.

3. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
Making Resolutions Stick
If you really want to stick to your resolutions you need to leverage
what is often referred to as the pain and pleasure principle. This
means making your current situation as painful as it really is and
your desired goal as pleasurable as possible.

4. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
Pain
One of the best ways to utilise the pain part of the principle is to
make a list of all of the things that are painful about the situation
you’re in. Take five minutes to do this, don’t think about it just write
down everything that comes to mind.

5. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
Now, think about all of these things and how they make you feel.
You’ll be tempted to use what are called softeners to rationalise why
you’re in this situation in the first place, things like ‘Well, it’s not
really that bad’, don’t do this, softeners start to appear at the
beginning of the road to failure. Assess the situation for how it really
is and how it really makes you feel.

6. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
Confront your anxieties, if you’re over weight, you want to lose it
and don’t like looking in the mirror, you must get naked and look at
yourself in the mirror, this will make you feel uncomfortable and
that’s fantastic, it’s the type of motivation you ‘ll need to achieve
your goal. .

7. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
Pleasure
You need to make your goal as pleasurable as possible. Take another
five now to write a list of all the things that sticking to your
resolution will bring. If weight loss is your goal, how will it feel to
be slim and be able to fit into those smaller size clothes? How will
your health improve? .

8. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
Once you have your list made your list visualise yourself living as
you want to live. Make it as real as possible. If you’re not moved
into action by your visualisation it’s not strong enough and you need
to stack more positive reasons onto achieving your goal..

9. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
To give yourself the best chance of making your resolution stick you
must see you situation for how it really is, without all of the
softeners you typically use to kid yourself into feeling better. The
worse you feel about your current situation and the better you feel
about your goal the higher your motivation to reach it will be.

10. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
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11. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
To give yourself the best chance of making your resolution stick you
must see you situation for how it really is, without all of the
softeners you typically use to kid yourself into feeling better. The
worse you feel about your current situation and the better you feel
about your goal the higher your motivation to reach it will be.

12. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
To give yourself the best chance of making your resolution stick you
must see you situation for how it really is, without all of the
softeners you typically use to kid yourself into feeling better. The
worse you feel about your current situation and the better you feel
about your goal the higher your motivation to reach it will be.

13. Motive Your Self To Keep Your New Years Resolutions
To give yourself the best chance of making your resolution stick you
must see you situation for how it really is, without all of the
softeners you typically use to kid yourself into feeling better. The
worse you feel about your current situation and the better you feel
about your goal the higher your motivation to reach it will be.