How to Succeed at Your New Year's Resolutions:

Tips and Tricks to Accomplishing Your Goals This Year!

The Daily Friz

Happy new year everyone! Have big plans this year? A lot of us make New Year's resolutions every year only to end up having the exact same resolutions made the following year. Weight loss, quitting smoking, and ending other bad habits are often at the top of people's list. After all who wouldn't want to have a healthier more rewarding lifestyle? In this short post there are a few easy to use tips and tricks to staying the course with your new year's resolutions. Good luck on the new and improved you 2.0, this year.

Dieting:

     Eating and drinking healthy can be as easy as writing a grocery list and sticking to it when at the store. Pretend you're a bouncer at an elite club; if that candy bar by the register is not on the list, it's not getting into your cart.

     Pay attention to the labels of the products that you buy! Many of us have a hard time pronouncingservings per chart before downing that bottle.

let alone understanding product's ingredient lists but we can prevent ourselves from falling prey to misleading calorie counts. That soda may say only 110 calories; however look at the serving size and the

Exorcise:

     Make an exorcise plan but don't plan on sticking to your outline. Trying to follow a ridged guide for fitness when starting off is hard. You won't know how much or how little your body can handle at first until you get out there. Following someone else's established regimen may either limit you or cause you to feel depressed and outright give up if your ideal workout is too hard initially. Take a week trying different things either at home or the gym to get a better handle on how your body reacts before developing a long-term regimen.

Quit Smoke and Other Bad Habits:

     The psychology of smoking and other bad habits can make quitting these troublesome quirks difficult, often more so than the chemical withdraw symptoms one may face. A smoker for example has, over a length of time, typically been programmed when to smoke: after sex, while driving, with the morning coffee, at the bar, and so on. When you stop smoking you don't stop doing those other things. Being in the situations where you once smoked the most will make it harder to quit, so try to engage your attention towards other pursuits when these situations approach. Depending on the habit, replacing the act with something similar like chewing on a carrot for smokers will help ease out of the psychological withdraw.

Quick Tips:

~Brush your teeth. Avoid the smell of tobacco smoke while trying to quit smoking as this could lead to cravings.

~Don't do it alone. Statistics show greater success at attaining goals when others are involved.

~Let friends know your goal. Saying your goals out loud to others makes them more psychologically important than keeping them to yourself.

~Treat your savings like a monthly bill. When balancing finances at the start of the month, put aside a realistic amount for savings and treat it like a paid bill that can't be refunded for until the end of the year.

~Don't get too wrapped up in the planning of goals. You may loose steam too soon if the most involved part of your goal was the planning of it not the doing.

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