New Year resolutions

New Year Resolutions -don’t bother.  No seriously don’t bother as you’ll only end beating yourself up especially if you only last a few weeks before ditching them.  Let’s replace the word resolution, which has a negative connotation, with the word goal(s) and if you are going to set a goal - set the bar high.  There’s nothing more disappointing than seeing someone set a low bar, and then achieving it!  It just encourages mediocrity.
Set a goal you are passionate about.  Write it down.  Put a plan around it and have someone check your progress on a regular basis - someone you’re accountable to.  Put it on Facebook.  Link it to a charity so when the going gets tough you don’t want to let them down.  Tell your friends and Blog about it - I promise it works and I’ve a 9 year track record to prove it.
If you keep your goals to yourself it’s easy to let them drop and may gyms will see this when they are packed in January and start to empty in February and back to the regulars by March.  This approach can be life changing.
With my daily and weekly goals being monitored by my coach, I make sure I arrange my day / life around getting the session done and making it meaningful.  It doesn’t always work but I’d say 97% of the time it does.  Sometimes Tollcross Swimming let me down like yesterday when they didn’t open till 12 and I was standing outside at 11 (not shown on their website!). I didn’t have time in my schedule to wait as I was going to a family event which involved a few glasses of wine and food.  I carefully paced myself so that the following day I was fit to run 1 hr 55 mins at Chatelherault in the morning.  It would have been easy to have had a “session” yesterday and not be able to get out of my bed in the morning and to skip the run but reporting after every training session to my coach doesn’t give me that option.
This approach works for me so if you really want to achieve something special in 2019, you might want to consider it.  Or you could let another year go by and find yourself heading up to the next year end thinking about New Year Resolutions.  The power is in your hands - go on.  You know you want to.  All the best for 2019.