Sometimes it’s hard to keep on track with your goals.
Here are tips to help make goals stick:
- When you are working on a new healthy habit create prompts for goal implementation. For example if you want to exercise first thing in the morning lay out your exercise clothes the night before right next to your bed so you can put them on as soon as you get up. Or if flossing your teeth daily is your goal pull out the floss when you pull out your toothbrush.
- While having SMART goals is important to success so is creating goals in the present tense to help you visualize the goal as already done. For example I wear a size eight versus I will lose 20 pounds or I am cigarette free versus I will stop smoking.
- Set up rewards to build some pleasure into the actual activity. For example tape your favorite TV show and watch it while exercising so you can create a habit that sticks.
Creating prompts, setting up rewards and establishing goals in the present tense will aid with goal implementation and assist in creating healthy habits that stick. Give one of these tips a try…you can make your goals a reality.
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