The start of a new year is a time for goalsetting, but so many of us struggle to stick to our new years resolutions. And according to the experts, around a quarter of us barely make a week before giving up on our new year goals completely.
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00:00It's no surprise now that many people are setting New Year's resolutions that are around
00:05their health and wellbeing goals. We also think of the festive season can for many actually
00:10mean a period of overconsumption and indulgence. So the New Year actually can provide a set
00:18point, a focal point or a turning point where we can actually set those goals that we are
00:24perhaps thinking about during that period of overconsumption that we know that next
00:28year will be different for us. It's about being realistic. I think we need to commit
00:32to something that we know requires some sustainable effort to achieve, but not something so hard
00:37that it involves a schedule that will quickly burn out and lose interest. That is what we
00:42say a lot of. And I think there's a sense of let's do less of something, what we would
00:47call an avoidance-oriented goal, rather than doing more of something. So for example, this
00:52approach-oriented goal would say, let's eat more vegetables rather than avoiding something.
00:57So let's eat less sweet treats. It's far more realistic and actually far more successful
01:02if you choose to eat more vegetables than give up something that you actually love.