Analysis: How To Keep Your Resolutions

You always here goals about people wanting to lose weight. More often than not people are going to the gym to try and lose weight. There’s also those few people who want to put on weight. I happen to be one of those people. My goal is to gain 10 pounds of muscle by the time I start my next semester which would be August 22nd, putting me at 180lbs. This has been a goal of mine for a while, but I haven’t put it into action until now.

My top resolution for this year is jogging for 30 minutes everyday. I made this resolution because I need to get a better mile score. A second reason is that I want to be healthier. My last reason is for this resolution is I want to run a marathon next year. Also this resolution was made because my parents want me to be more active. By jogging I spend less time in my phone and video games.

A resolution is a firm decision to do or not to do something. In Heidi Pollock’s essay, “You Say You Want a Resolution” she describes the true meaning of a New Year’s resolution. A lot of people might pick only one resolution for New Year’s. They might say they want to lose a certain amount of weight or to stop drinking soda. According to Pollock though, that is not the correct way. In Pollock’s words , “A true resolution should be an addition to your life, should expand your horizons and help you grow as a person”. Her view is that people should have three resolutions; one from the Health & Lifestyle category, another from the Education/Practice category, as well as one from the Project/Task category. The reason for the three is to increase the odds in being successful in fulfilling at least one of the resolutions. So my three New Year’s resolutions for next year are washing my face every night before bed, reading a book I would not normally read at least once a month, and finally finding a job for myself.

This behavior change project has become a huge part of my everyday life. I lost sight of how important staying in shape affects my overall mental state along with my physical well-being. Having a life that consists of so many activities such as going to school, working, and maintaining a full and happy relationship with the people I care about is hard to balance with just making time for myself. That is why keeping this three day a week workout regime over the past five weeks has been so important; it made me realize that I can make time to focus on just working on myself, and in turn, improve all other aspects of my life. Realizing of course that there are many people in this world that have real life health problems that they seek professional help for. These changes in their lives require a system or a theory that must be applied to develop a strategic an organized way to regulate or change their behavior.

A person can get a lot more done in becoming successful with someone to help guide

No matter if it is the fist of the year or if it is the end of the year the best way to get in or keep the best shape of your life would have to be is to work out. Regularly working out is a good thing as long as you do the workouts the right way and to stay safe the whole time you are working out. But, to workout, you would have to know a great way to keep you safe. The first way to keep you safe is that you have to know why you are trying to start working out in the first place. Are you trying to lose weight or Are you trying to gain muscle or maybe just trying to get that perfect swimsuit body? There are many different opinions on what you are trying to do and how to make it the perfect one for you. There are workouts available for if

The behavior I have chosen to do my modification program on is increasing the amount of time I work out every time I go to the gym until I reach my target goal. My target goal is to work out for an hour and half every time I go to the gym in the morning. When I go to the gym I will be taking a stop watch to time the amount of time I work out to verify that I reached my goal as well as mark my calendar every day that I go stating how long I worked out for. To make sure I was committed to the goal I wrote down six reasons/benefits of making this behavior change that are both short term and long term. They are feeling better about myself throughout the day, getting to wear the dress I want to be able to fit by my birthday on July 24th, increasing my endurance for marathons, improving my mood, sleeping better, also something to enjoy doing with my husband. There are many more but these are the ones I placed on my bathroom mirror, on my desk lamp at work, on my dashboard in my car, the table next to my front door that holds my gym bag and shoes, on my fridge and in my husband’s truck in case he drives. I also let my husband know my goal and also invited him to come with me so he could monitor that I am actually sticking with my plan daily. I also had stated the table next to the door holds my gym bag and shoes so if I was to walk outside I automatically see them there taunting me to take them and go to the gym. I also put a reminder on my phone each day of my goal and why it

In the article “How Match.com Aims to Stay Relevant” by Tara Nieuwesteeg the writers tells a story about two people who met on the website years ago and are happily married today. Lauren Whitson, 30 was in search of a relationship with a man whose relationship history was a mystery to her. She created a profile on the site in hopes of at least meeting new people. After she received a few creepy messages she thought twice about using the site to find her

This year, I'm setting a resolution. I've joined a Lemon Dropper (a group from Young Living) walking challenge called The One challenge, with daily walks of 2.75 miles, thus totalling to 1,000 miles for the year. That isn't my resolution, this year, though. My resolution is to stop making decisions that will make it difficult to feel healthy. This can be anything from eating too much sugar before my walk, to deciding to finish a great book, even though it's 11:30pm and I need my eight hours of sleep. If my action makes it harder for me to feel good the next day, it's not happening. I expect there may be a few flub ups. But at 47, I know what foods, drinks and activities make me too tired to function properly and what to avoid. I resolve

According to an issue of Harvard Women’s Health Watch, “Studies have also shown that goals are easier to reach if they are specific.” Setting goals is proven to help establish change better, than someone who has a broader goals. For example, someone trying to lose weight might want their goal to be jog for twenty minutes each day and they will change faster than someone who is also trying to lose weight yet sets the goal of jog more. “More” could mean an hour each week or each month, and the goal leaves no room for improvement, which is essential to change. In an interview for a Reuters news article, former gang member Stephanie Lane states that “Now I feel like I've got too much to lose. Boxing keeps my head on straight and gets me back in shape.” To combat her problem of relapsing to the gang life, Lane took specific measures which helped change her outlook on life. Taking action and setting goals is a major way to combat changing. Although some critics say, “we can not change with just goals in mind, but look deeper in themselves.”, people can change, but they need to follow the steps. Havard states, “different strategies are needed at different stages.” This proves that people need different strategies or different goals in order to progress further. In order to change, people must have specific goals in mind, but not broad

Reading this article, I noticed that I honestly need to listen to most of these. The one I picked that I feel I need to fix about myself the most is Don't try to Fix Them. Be Socrates. The reason I say that is because when someone is telling me their problems, I tend to be a little judgemental and I do sometimes cut people off to ask questions and I guess I should work on that more. The first sentence in that article “People do need help. But nobody likes being told what to do. Um… difficult.” When I read this, I instantly agreed but then noticed that that’s exactly what I do with my friends and I would hate to be a hypocrite especially if I dislike when someone is telling me what to do. But at at the same time, I feel that we need to show

The authors choose this audience to help them through their hard time and guide the audience toward doing what is best for them. The first way the writing is adaptive to the audience is by the title Should I Keep Trying to Work it Out?. This adapts to the audience that has the same question running through their head. Another way the writing is adaptive is by using quotes from people that have gone through the situation. For example, Janet a divorced, single mom said, “Divorce is such a gut-wrenching experience, and there isn’t anyone I know that hasn’t come through it with their whole world just turned upside down” (1). This helps the reader understand that not only are they not alone but the situation itself is not going to be easy. The tone

A client whose goal is to loose 50 pounds in a year may find that unachievable yet a goal of loosing 5 pounds a month may be much more agreeable. Similarly a lady who wants to completely clear and tidy her very cluttered home is more likely to achieve her goal if she chunks it down to one room at a time, maybe one room a week or even month. Breaking the goal setting down into bite size chunks and reasonable time frames is much more likely to be successful.

The article Predicting Physical Activity Outcomes During Episodes of Academic Goal Conflict, from the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, explains the differential roles of action planning and coping planning in relation to students with conflicting fitness and academic goals. Action planning explains when and how goals will be completed. Coping planning is connecting goal striving with responses to coping. It is common for people to want to live an active, healthy life. But it is even more common for fitness or nutrition goals to fade because our focus is on living. Creating a preparation plan can be a useful, strategic move on our parts in increasing fitness activities. The purpose of this article was to examine whether creating a

This week I wanted to look at self-directed behavior in students. I feel like this is something that students are not taught to do enough of. Any time that I have changed my behavior, it wasn’t because I wanted to change. Many times it was because my parents got tired of the way that I behaved. Every time that I would attempt to change, making pointless, vague New Year’s Resolutions, I failed. Even right now, while we are working on our behavior projects, I am rethinking what my goal should be because I am having a very difficult time committing to my goal of running thirty minutes a week. I have never been an athlete, and it appears that I was not meant to be. Anyways, this relates to the reading this week, as the reading was entirely about self-directed behavior.