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How To: Stick To Your New Year’s Resolutions

Stick to Your New Years ResolutionWe are now almost a week into 2013 and I am already seeing friends and family complain about slipping on their resolutions.

It is a phenomenon that happens every year without fail!

I think studies show that something around a staggering 80% of all resolutions are unsuccessful; and while the science behind why your brain goes into cognitive overload when you lay down all those well-intentioned resolutions on your frontal lobe is fascinating, I want to focus on something a little more useful to my readers.

How to Not Suck at New Year’s Resolutions!

How to Not Suck at News Years Resolutions - The Jerd

That’s right Jerdlings, let’s break down what to do (and not to do) when it comes to this yearly cycle of fail and guilt.

I am sure you already have your list of resolutions, either in your head or scribbled on a piece of paper hanging on your refrigerator, but let’s take a few minutes to look at why you might be setting yourself up for a morale crushing failure; and even better yet let’s use this as an opportunity to revamp them in a way that will make you successful!

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Beginner Fitness Goals – A Guide

Seeing as the Mayans were wrong, and I am not humming an Aerosmith song as an asteroid hurdles towards Earth, I decided to reach back today and share a guest post on beginner fitness goals that I wrote for Glenneth Reed over on her blog “Let’s Talk and Walk“. With the inevitable weight of New Year’s resolutions and the like start pressing on people’s shoulders I figured it would be a good time to explain how to set goals that are actually achievable!

So sit back, let this sweet Jerd wisdom caress your brain and stop being a n00b when it comes to setting and managing your beginner fitness goals

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How To: Set Your Fitness Goals

Set Your Fitness GoalsAs I have mentioned before it can be overwhelming once you make the decision that you want to be more active and healthy.  Not only is it difficult to pin down the “hows” but it can be daunting just defining the “what“!  In order to set your fitness goals, and have them be realistic and actionable, you need to sit down for 10-15 minutes and put some pen to paper (I am big on writing things down and visualizations).  We are going to figure out what we are trying to accomplish with this newfound direction in life…

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