How to set goals & actually stick to them in 2020

JANUARY – the time of year we make our resolutions for the year ahead, when we promise ourselves “this year will be different”, when everything resets, and we feel like we have a clean slate. This time of year feels refreshing, light, exciting and promising.

However, either one week, one month or a few months later, we have stopped working on our resolutions, are back to our previous habits, and have officially failed to keep our promises to ourselves.

How many of you have been through this? Probably all of us, and more than once! The reason we don’t keep our resolutions isn’t that we are failures and are unable to make changes, it’s the way we approach our desired goals.

 

Holiday-Stress Survival Guide

The holidays are a time of happiness and joy, or at least that’s what we think we “should” be feeling, what we are told we “should” feel and what we assume everyone else is feeling.

The truth, for many, the holidays are an extremely stressful & painful time.

MY WHY

I spent so many years feeling sorry for myself, feeling down, anxious, sad, and depressed. I spent so many years believing life was this way, and the best we could do was find ways to cope with it the best we could. I spent so many years believing I wasn't lovable, I wasn’t enough. I sent so many years feeling lost and unfulfilled.

Fixing vs Solving a Problem

If you don't allow yourself to feel the bad, you also become unable to feel the good. And in the end, life is just that- an eternal dance of ups and downs… The downs help us learn and grow and allow us to fully savor the ups.