As 2015 began, many of us set good intentions for the year: get fit and eat healthy, spend more time with family, or maybe balance a checkbook. The important part of all good intentions, however, involves follow through. If we never act on our intentions, they don't help us. It is now three months into the year – how is it going for you? Are you still committed to your intentions?
The gym is packed with new members just after January 1. Classes are full and trainers are very busy. Not so now. It is back to business as usual with the regulars showing up while those who came in to fulfill New Years' resolutions are nowhere to be seen.
My CPA recommended a new system of accounting for my checkbook several months ago. I am committed to learn this system and to follow through, but it requires an effort on my part to do so. Why is it we know what to do yet we don’t want to do it?
Each day, there are articles on the Internet or in magazines to guide us toward a healthy lifestyle with regular exercise and balanced meals. Yet we continue to eat lots of sugar and carbohydrates, and discontinue our programs at the gym. Why? It is hard to know how to answer the why, this is precisely the question we need to answer for ourselves to improve our daily lives.
Coaching Thoughts:
- It is easy to dismiss your lack of follow through now, but “the bill” may arrive later.
- If you break a promise to yourself or set an intention and fail to keep it, a stressful and regretful life may be the result.
- If you fail to have a healthy life style or you continue smoking, illness may follow.
- If you lack balance between your work and your family; relationships may suffer.
- If the accounting is not done, financial disaster may ensue.
- Commit to action and discipline yourself to follow through with that commitment.
As your coach, I will walk beside you and hold you accountable to follow through. Call me.
Warm Regards, Susan Hayman Life Transitions Coach 662-238-7754
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