Believe it or not, most people can answer “yes, yes and yes” to these three questions. Apparently, spending less and saving more is the third most common New Year’s resolution, yet 30% of people making it will have given up within a fortnight of the first day of January.
Wonga Loans South Africa helps people every day with short term debt problems. But it’s far better if you can avoid the need for help with debt by sticking to your resolution. Spending less than you earn is the key – as is perseverance. There’s no easy solution.
When it comes to the area of the most common resolution, though – namely; fitness – there is a far easier solution and that’s to do something you enjoy. Most people set unrealistic resolution goals for their fitness and healthy eating targets etc., and then set off at it like the clappers in early January only to fizzle out by the end of the month in most cases.
To avoid this, concentrate not on the fitness associated with the sporting activity – but on the enjoyment of the activity alone. In this way, the activity is a treat. You aren’t fooling your mind into believing the sport is some kind of work and, therefore, you’re ten times as likely to keep it up.
Believe it or not, some people actually enjoy distance running! But for the rest of us sane human beings, setting a target of running X miles a day or a week simply isn’t going to last. On the other hand, playing squash, badminton or tennis, or maybe football, rugby, netball or basketball, for example, just might work if we love it for its own sake.
In these situations, our minds aren’t concentrating on the exercise for its own sake and, therefore, the exercise is incidental to the playing of the game. This isn’t usually the case with exercise like running, swimming, cycling or lifting weights – unless we’re in a competition. But even then, it isn’t a game-based contest. If you love doing any of these exercise regimes, then great – keep up the good work. But if you find you persistently fail – then give up the slog and do it for the love of the game and you’ll have a much better chance of keeping it up.
