Happy New Year from everyone at thespencepractice!
Having reflected on what happened last year you may feel it was a good year, a bad year or just mediocre, but what can you learn from it that will help make this year a better one?
Traditionally, at this time, people make New Year resolutions and usually they tend to be about changing a habit or behaviour. A time when you might decide to ‘give up’ smoking or go on a diet to ‘lose weight’ and/or attempt to cut out alcohol. Whilst these changes are sensible and responsible lifestyle choices they often result in failure within weeks and sometimes days. This is because the focus tends to be on deprivation which most human beings are not very good at in the long-term. Motivation is usually triggered by a desire for pleasure or the avoidance of pain.
How many times have you resolved not to do something at the start of a new year but failed by the end of January because you felt deprived, missing out on pleasurable activities and in no less pain than you were before? Perhaps this year could be the time to change your approach, because ‘if you always do what you have always done you will always get what you always got’.
You could set yourself some positive and meaningful goals this year and enjoy the pleasure from achieving them and focusing your mind on the benefits and the pleasure the changes bring. For example, if you want to stop smoking for financial reasons decide to use the money you wasted on cigarettes on something healthy and pleasurable instead.
Whatever changes you want to make in 2008 don’t hesitate to contact us if you need some professional help.
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