New year: new you

West Australian Tuesday 28th December, 2010

It's easy to make a grandiose New Year's resolution - but much less easy to stick to it. Life coach and personal trainer Jennifer Atkins said to make the right resolution you needed to have a clear purpose."What do you really want?" she said. "Too many times we align our goals with what others want and then wonder why we lose the motivation to achieve them."For a dream to become a goal, it needed to be specific. "Being thin is an image; fitting into size 10 jeans by May 1 is a true resolution. Be clear on what you want to achieve."Life coach Michelle Hext said a resolution needed to be the right size."A goal that is too big often creates too much distance, which means that if we are removed from it and on some level don't think we can achieve it, we almost give up before we start," she sai...

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I hear you on that, and I am right along with it. I feel that when the clients sets unrealistic goals, it is a recipe for failure!. Its almost like a set up, self-fullfilling prophecy.

annmarie - 01-24-11, 07:41 PM

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