How to make your New Year’s resolution stick

By Dana Roberts

With the start of 2019 just hours away, many Canadians are taking the new year as an opportunity to start fresh with a resolution. However, a recent Ipsos study showed nearly 75 per cent fail to stick to them. 

Many people look towards developing a fitness routine and healthy lifestyle as their resolution for the new year. Experts say in order to be successful people must evaluate how much help they will need. “The goal about sticking to any type of plan going into the new year is always recognizing that you have to identify what level of support you may need,” Kim Lavender, vice president of team training and specialty group training with GoodLife Fitness, told KitchenerToday. “Some people need a group of people, some people need a coach and some people need that higher level of support such as a personal trainer.”

Lavender says its important for people to set resolutions that are achievable. She recommends building on past successes and thinking of your new years goal as an evolution. “Evolution is really dialling in on what are you already great at? What have you achieved in the past that can be that springboard to your better? Setting goals is really about getting better. What are the things proven as evidence that you can achieve these goals. So if a goal requires some characteristic or some environment or some belief that you might have or must have in order to reach that goal, when in the past have you tapped into that before so that you can tap into it again and evolve and get better.”

One of the biggest trends in fitness right now is high intensive interval training. But according to Lavender its important to find something that is right for you and that sparks your interests.

Lavender says if people want to meet their goals, its important that they make it a priority. “Most people find that once they really realistically take a look at their lifestyle its easier to make those changes. What can you give up, what can you make room for and what is going to be worth it because you have to value something before you can set it as a priority.”

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