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About those New Year’s Resolutions . . .
By Kat Tansey | January 11, 2010
I don’t know about you, but I would hate to count the number of times I have made a resolution (New Year’s or otherwise) to start a new practice or change a behavior, and then have my good intention simply fade into the ether within a pretty short time.
To tell you the truth, I always felt this was a lacking on my part. I mean after all, I had the very best of intentions, didn’t I? It wasn’t rocket science — I just wanted to drink 8 glasses of water every day, for goodness sake — or something else as simple as that.
So why wasn’t I successful?
It turns out, it wasn’t my fault. Seriously! And it isn’t your fault when this happens to you.
When I was doing my insomnia research last year, I learned that some of the actions we could take to improve our sleep would require that we, gulp, change our behavior. This made me nervous about whether I could help people learn how to get better sleep, because I know how hard it is to do that – change our behavior, I mean. After all, I still wasn’t drinking 8 glass of water every day, even though I absolutely believed it would improve my health.
Thank goodness I learned about Dr. Steve Levinson’s research on why we don’t follow through on our good intentions. He is a clinical psychologist and inventor who has been studying this problem for decades. When I talked to Steve, everything started to make sense – I finally understood why following through on our good intentions is so hard. And, I learned from him that it isn’t our fault. It’s the way our brains are wired.
You really must listen to my interview with Steve to learn the truth about why we fail at keeping our good intentions. It’s only 16 minutes, and believe me, what he has to say can be life changing! I know it has changed mine.
Audio: Why we fail at keeping our good intentions
So – this is pretty amazing stuff, isn’t it? I’ve used what I’ve learned from Steve, along with his great little invention, The Motivator, to finally become a person who actually drinks 8 glasses of water a day! I’ve also become a person who gets her exercise every day, who meditates every day –and a few other things I’ve always wanted to make part of my life.
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I sincerely hope you will decide to take action today – because, as Steve says, “Every time we fail to keep our Intentions, we are breaking a promise to ourselves.” It’s about time we changed that, don’t you think?
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