New Year’s Resolutions!?!?

No matter how you feel about them, it is that time of year when everyone thinks about New Year’s resolutions.  Do you want to lose weight? Exercise more? Eat healthy? Spend more time with family and loved ones?  Well whatever your New Year’s resolution is or is not, if you are serious about meeting goals that you set for yourself, there are a few things you need to do to help make them happen.

Obtainable Goals

First, you really need to start with a goal that pushes you but is still obtainable.  Now there is something to be said for the idea that you can do whatever you put your mind, however some goals are not reasonable.  What I mean is, wanting to run a marathon by the end of the month when you haven’t done more exercise than walking from the couch to the fridge before is not a reasonable goal.  Is it possible? Sure you could ‘run’ a marathon but it probably isn’t going to happen or the results won’t be great.  Another example would be, wanting to lose large amounts of weight in a very short amount of time.  Does it happen? Yes but it is not typical and usually is not very healthy.  So set goals that are difficult but still reasonable to attain.

Specific Goals

Another part of having a good goal is being specific and able to measure it in some way.  It is often easier to have a very broad and general goal of “be better at…” or “do more…,” but how do you know when you have met that goal?  If it isn’t specific and measurable there is no real way of knowing how you are doing on it and probably won’t really happen.  One more aspect of being specific is having a time in which you want to accomplish the goal.  This puts the goal in a timeframe to work towards.  Goals with no timeframe easily get put off to later because life happens and goals are difficult to work on.

Be Accountable

There are few things that kill accomplishing goals more than not being accountable for them.  Writing goals down and letting others know about your goals helps to make you accountable for the goal.  If the goal never takes a physical form by writing it down or telling someone, it probably isn’t going to happen.  It is too easy to let a goal fail if it never gets out of your head and nobody else knows about it.  So make sure to write it down and put that paper somewhere it will be seen often so you remember it.  Also telling someone else about your goal who can follow up and help you stick to it makes a huge difference.

Make a Plan

Goals can often seem overwhelming to reach but if you break a big goal down into smaller steps it becomes much more reasonable to do it.  So make a plan on how you are going to reach your goal.  What do you need to do each month to reach the goal? Each week? Each day?  Write it out and make a plan of what steps need to be taken and you have just given yourself a plan to success.

New Year’s Resolution for Better Health

If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to improve your health, go see a chiropractor!  Chiropractic is a natural, holistic approach to health that looks for the true cause of your health problem.  Often poor health comes as a result of interference with messages sent through the nerves.  The brain is not able to coordinate the actions of the body as precisely when there is interference to the messages it sends.  Over time this can lead to a myriad of health problems.  Chiropractors are trained to find these areas of interference which often involve misalignments of the spine and to correct them with safe and natural adjustments.  Restoring your body’s ability to heal and function better.  This gives you more time and energy to focus on those other New Year’s resolutions.