It's already March and chances are your New Year's Resoutions are a distant memory and are nowhere in your plan this week. You started the year with the best intentions but it may be that your resolutions weren't SMART. As a fitness expert in Washington, DC, I work with over 100 members in my personal training gym located in Georgetown. These are real people with families and busy work schedules so it's easy to see how anyone could forget what they set out to do for themselves. Below are 5 Ways To Go From Stupid to SMART.
I hope this article helps you get back on track with your 2012 goals whether you live in the DC area or not. But if you are in DC you know the weather is changing and the Cherry Blossoms are coming out soon so get ready and set some goals you can achieve!
According to Richard Wiseman, a British psychologist who has tracked 3,000 peoples resolutions, 88% will fail to keep their New Years resolutions. After 7 days of talking to people about what their New Years Resolutions are, Im surprised that the success rate is even 12%. The way most people approach making resolutions makes them seem destined to fail. But that does NOT have to be your fate.
5 Ways To Go From Stupid to SMART
1. What Are You Even Talking About?
Last week I talked to 20 or so people about what their resolutions were, and they ALL have failed this first test. Most peoples resolutions are incredibly vague statements like: Write more letters, Get in shape, or Go to church more. When I ask, Well, what does get in shape mean? I get answers like, Work out more, Eat better, or the classic, I dont know. If you cannot define what it means to be successful, then you can never actually be successful. Your resolutions need to contain meaningful and specific information that defines what success is and what success is not. For Get into shape that could be ANYTHING it could be bench pressing 250 pounds, it could be getting back into your size 6 dress, or anything else. What is it to you? For something like Work out more, if you worked out once in 2009, will you be happy if you workout twice in 2010? Or, like for most people, will you simply tell yourself that you should be working out more no matter how often you workout so that you always feel bad about what you are doing and then give up. The S in SMART is for SPECIFIC: If you cant define it, then you wont achieve it.
2. How Much Do You Want?
Again you need further information about what something like Workout more means. Are you going to workout three days per week? Four days per week? What constitutes a workout? You must have an objective (read numerical) way of determining if you have or have not succeeded. The M in SMART is for MEASUREABLE: If you cant measure it, you cant manage it, and youll never know if you are improving it for sure or not.
3. Is This In Your Control?
This is for resolutions like Im going to get my fat husband in shape. You cant do that. You can ask. You can share your concern. You can be supportive by throwing out all the junk and cooking better for yourself. (My dad dropped 20lbs by accident this year just because my mom became a much better low-carb.) The A in SMART is ATTAINABLE.
4. Will You Pay That Much For It?
I wont eat any junk food in 2012 is something that somebody could actually do IF they defined what junk food was (you need a thorough working definition), and IF they had a good enough reason to follow through. In reality, for most people, the above is destined to fail because its probably not worth it. That goal is focused on behavior the price to be paid, and not on the benefit. A fat loss review can help you construct a clear summarize of what you require to focus on to achieve your fat burning goal if you're a starter; or serve as a reminder for these who are at an advanced or more boost step of their losing weight program. Following are seven steps that can serve as guidelines for your own weight loss system. The first thing that one must understand is that losing weight and losing fat is not the same thing. Many weight loss programs have fooled people into believing that it is the same, but most diets and weight loss programs only work by producing a person's body to reduce more muscle flesh and water than actual body fat, more help please visit The Fat Loss Factor. The goals and resolutions with the most juice behind them are OUTCOME oriented they focus on the payoff, not the price. If you know that you are working towards something amazing you can wake up early, and discipline yourself. The R in SMART is for REALISTIC.
5. When Will You Have It By?
The deadline is the most important invention ever, because without it nobody would have finished any other invention. -Dan Kennedy For the most part New Years Resolutions actually have this built in its a goal for one year. Ill workout three times a week for one year. If, however, you want it sooner that one year from now, write that down. The T is fore TIME BOUND.
6. The BONUS Tip.
Write it all down and review it at least once a week if not every single day. It only takes 2 minutes to review a single resolution. Life is busy and messy and there is always more things going on than you can possibly keep up with. If you let a week go by without reviewing what, by your own definition, is most important to you, then you will get caught up in the urgency of life and not make one inch of progress towards anything that really matters to you.
Josef Brandenburg is the founder and owner of The Body You Want Fitness Solutions located in Washington, DC. He and his team help people get the bodies they want in the time they actually have. For more information check out www.thebodyyouwant.com or call 202-316-1457.
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