Do more...stop doing less!

And so we begin again.

I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and that you enjoyed a refreshing and re-energising break!

So now we enter a brave new year, determined to be a brave new us. Will we be more streamlined, healthier, happier, richer?

What challenges have you set yourself for 2016? What resolutions? 

I wonder how many of those challenges and resolutions you phrased in the negative? I will stop smoking. I will stop drinking on weekdays. I will stop working until 8 or 9 pm. I will stop having a choco moco caramel concoction every morning!

I don’t know about you but I find all this deprivation a wee bit depressing.

I’m a 'towards' sort of girl - I find it much harder to stop doing something, than to do something - to deprive myself than to drive towards a positive outcome.  So stopping eating and drinking so much after Christmas is much harder for me than starting to exercise more, for example.

I wonder if that’s why so many people struggle to quit stuff. Maybe they are ‘towards’ people too.  Maybe they need a positive ‘why’ to drive towards.

So, why do I want to stop eating chocolate?’

A: Because I want to lose weight?
Why?

A: Because I want to be healthier
Why?

A: Because I want to live a long and active life
Why?

A: Because it will give me a foundation for happiness and I’ll be able to enjoy my children  growing up.

By thinking about why you want to do something you’ve gone from depriving yourself of chocolate (or a bottle of wine, or a cigarette) to feeling good about yourself and being around for your kids!’ Isn’t that just a teency bit more inspiring?
How many of your negative ‘stops’ can you turn into positive starts?  Could this be the year you ‘Do’ more and ’stop doing’ less?
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Here’s to 2016 - your most successful and inspiring year yet!

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