01/03/2020
Why New Year Resolutions DON’T Work! 🤯🤯
👉🏼If the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, then most of us qualify as nuts. We want to change our lives for the better; we believe that we are capable of change; and yet we find ourselves perennially stuck in the same old rut.
🙋🏻♀️We fail to change time after time because we profoundly overestimate our stores of willpower.
📍Psychologists call this failing “restraint bias.” We confidently make resolutions to change and assume we’ll be able to bulldoze our urges because we’re bad at remembering how tempting temptation can be.🙊🙅🏻♀️
🔐The key, it turns out, is to simply start behaving like the person you want to become. Instead of wondering, What should I do?, imagine your future, better self and ask: What would they do?
👍🏻This approach works because of the rather surprising way that our brains form self-judgments.
🗣Likewise, the most effective way to move toward change is to act like you’ve already achieved it.
🧠Don’t worry about playing mind-games with yourself. Don’t worry about affirmations. The way to become a fit person is to act like one.
Happy 2020 Everyone! Small daily disciplines add up to a very fulfilling life 🥰🥳
