Make a Better New Year’s Resolution

Make a Better New Year’s Resolution

How can you make a better New Year’s resolution this year? Dayna Lee-Baggley, Phd and author of Healthy Habits Suck: how to get off the couch and live a healthy life…even if you don’t want to (New Harbinger Publications, copyright July 2019) discusses research-based ideas to living a more joyful life as well as making effective New Year’s resolutions in the following podcast. Lee-Baggley focuses on the importance of being true to your individual values in order to prioritize decisions and actions.

Listen to the People Soup Podcast (1 hour 1 minute) with Dayna Lee-Baggley. The podcast is full of insights and tips to empowering positive change to live the life you want.

One of the golden nuggets Lee-Baggley discusses is the power in making resolutions based on behavior instead of outcomes. For example, instead of making a goal to eat healthy or lose weight, Lee-Baggley encourages people to make achievable goals based on the behavior needed to achieve the outcome. The goal could be to add an additional vegetable to your meal four days each week and to exercise on days you do not eat a new vegetable. Setting an achievable goal based on behavior gives you control and success which will keep you motivated to continue.

However, the opposite is also true. Setting goals that are beyond your control or that are unsustainable, result in failure which leads to giving up.

Focus on the behavior you have control over and determine the actions needed for the behavior in order to make lasting New Year’s resolutions. For more meaningful insights and advice, listen to the People Soup Podcast with Dayna Lee-Baggley, Phd and check out her book.

Through clarifying values and utilizing Lee-Baggley’s strategies, making effective New Year’s resolutions AND following through with them is possible. You can do this!

Happy New Year!