Five tips to keep your New Years resolution
Hello All,
How are you doing? Did you set a New Year’s resolution this January? How has it been? Have you found your stride or abandoned your intention early on?
Whilst there’s a huge benefit in joining the collective energy that starts to develop or improve a habit, January always feels a bit slow and dark for me. I normally start thinking about this in February, catching the energy of lighter mornings and longer days to help propel me.
I’ve set the intention to write more, with daily pages towards a book and weekly newsletters. Making writing fit alongside my morning practices before the day begins and distractions are plenty.
Since practising yoga and having personally experienced many mornings’ internal chitter chatter persuading me not to get on the mat and stay in bed, I’ve found these five steps have helped me the most to stay on track.
Set the bar low
Start with a small achievable goal and give yourself time to develop the skills needed to master your intention. As they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day, or a dinner service wasn’t made within a month of Pottery Club.Make your intention a priority
Schedule your activity above all other commitments at a time when fewer engagements could side-rail you. Early morning is the only moment when I know nothing will get in my way apart from my mind telling me to stay in bed…
Wake and write
Start your morning journalling in longhand for 15 - 30 minutes about anything and everything before the day. I’ve found this to be the only practice which has stopped my procrastination, and been the mind dump to create space and productivity to motivate my intentions.Ditch or delegate
Write a list of all the things that steal your time or are not a priority. From ditching the unnecessary, maybe thats doom-scrolling to downsizing the number of plants to water, or by delegating to family or colleagues to share the load. The time and energy you need for your resolution will appear.Feed your aura
We practise to increase awareness and expand our consciousness in Yoga, as our body will die, yet our soul continues. I’ve found by asking the question, ‘Is this good for my aura’ before making a choice, brings attention to whether the choice will increase or diminish vitality, supporting rather than giving way to self-sabotage.
I hope this helps and if you’ve fallen off track, don’t worry, you can begin again always.
Small steps and your commitment will grow…
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Until Next time,
Much love
Tamsin x