Happy New Year! 2012 has finally arrived.
Before I start this post, I want to ask you what was your new years resolution? Post me a comment or e-mail me at jennifer.barr@hotmail.ca ! I want to know if you have been sticking to it, keep up the "resoluting"!
Last new years I made three resolutions:
1. Be in love with the man I love,
2. Be able to get into the college that will jump start me into the picture,
and number three was, of course, to start going to the gym.
On December 31st, 2011, I realized that one and a half of them had been successful.
And like many other people I know, it was not the going to the gym one that made the list.
I remember walking into the Extreme Fitness gym, and seeing about 100 people doing the same resolution as I had made. As the weeks went by, fewer and fewer people came out, and by mid-February...only about 30 of the original "resoluters" were still coming out.
I do not know how many were still there by the end of the year, because by mid February, I too had become a quitter.
My question is, too all of you who have, as well, been in the same boat as I, why do we quit?
Is it because it's too much work then what we thought?
Is it because across from the gym, while being hungry, there was food affordable at McDonalds with the coin found on my car floor?
Or is it because we do it for the wrong reasons?
I know I did that resolution to look better for my boyfriend at the time whom I loved.
I had done it for the wrong reason. I didn't do it for the sake of my health, I did it for the external beauty for another.
I also didn't have a proper time limit on when I was going to get this done. I never realized until AFTER I quit the idea that it takes much more then an "off the brain" resolution. It takes knowledge of what you need and how you are going to get to that goal.
This year, I have created a new resolution, and it was to become Vegan for the month of January, and become a solid vegetarian for the next six months, and then see where it goes from there. I have my reasons for doing this resolution, but it wasn't until after talking about it with others who have been successful, and how it will benefit my health, instead of it benefiting my significant other (whom by the way has changed too, hence the 0.5 above).
When celebrating new years, having a drink or five, and being with close friends and family, remember to keep YOU in mind about those resolutions for this year (oh my gosh it's 2012!), and not the people around you.
Thanks for reading!
Jenn Barr
@thebarrscorner
Before I start this post, I want to ask you what was your new years resolution? Post me a comment or e-mail me at jennifer.barr@hotmail.ca ! I want to know if you have been sticking to it, keep up the "resoluting"!
Last new years I made three resolutions:
1. Be in love with the man I love,
2. Be able to get into the college that will jump start me into the picture,
and number three was, of course, to start going to the gym.
On December 31st, 2011, I realized that one and a half of them had been successful.
And like many other people I know, it was not the going to the gym one that made the list.
I remember walking into the Extreme Fitness gym, and seeing about 100 people doing the same resolution as I had made. As the weeks went by, fewer and fewer people came out, and by mid-February...only about 30 of the original "resoluters" were still coming out.
I do not know how many were still there by the end of the year, because by mid February, I too had become a quitter.
My question is, too all of you who have, as well, been in the same boat as I, why do we quit?
Is it because it's too much work then what we thought?
Is it because across from the gym, while being hungry, there was food affordable at McDonalds with the coin found on my car floor?
Or is it because we do it for the wrong reasons?
I know I did that resolution to look better for my boyfriend at the time whom I loved.
I had done it for the wrong reason. I didn't do it for the sake of my health, I did it for the external beauty for another.
I also didn't have a proper time limit on when I was going to get this done. I never realized until AFTER I quit the idea that it takes much more then an "off the brain" resolution. It takes knowledge of what you need and how you are going to get to that goal.
This year, I have created a new resolution, and it was to become Vegan for the month of January, and become a solid vegetarian for the next six months, and then see where it goes from there. I have my reasons for doing this resolution, but it wasn't until after talking about it with others who have been successful, and how it will benefit my health, instead of it benefiting my significant other (whom by the way has changed too, hence the 0.5 above).
When celebrating new years, having a drink or five, and being with close friends and family, remember to keep YOU in mind about those resolutions for this year (oh my gosh it's 2012!), and not the people around you.
Thanks for reading!
Jenn Barr
@thebarrscorner
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