Top Tips for making 2020 your BEST YEAR ever - from our Quirky Coach, Zoe Dawes

Bring sparkle into your life – says our Quirky Coach Zoe

“New Year’s Day now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” – Mark Twain

Are you into New Year resolutions? If so, good luck! At this time of year, I find it difficult enough to do much more than try to keep warm, stay vaguely focused on the job in hand and hopefully plan a holiday to warmer climes … But actually, I also believe that ANY day is good one to make a change, do something different, be it big or small.

If you are going to make some changes, here are my TOP Tips to help make 2020 your best year yet.

Before leaping into making changes, REFLECT on what has worked for you in the past and REVIEW
Do something you will ENJOY. If you want to get fit or lose weight, find a form of exercise or activity you like doing. Don’t join a gym if you know you hate them. If you like company find a club that has other like-minded people. Check online for unusual classes, quirky events, be brave and take a risk. Make it FUN!
Focus on the POSITIVE benefits, rather than the negatives. If you want to cut down on drinking, smoking, eating etc list all the advantages of doing it, and keep reminding yourself of this.
Be REALISTIC – you know what you are capable of, what might stop you achieving your goals and how likely you are to carry on. Take this into account from the start and choose realistic outcomes that you can succeed at over time.
Get SUPPORT and PLAN what you’re going to do. Research has proved that telling others what you are aiming for and asking for help greatly increases your chances of success in personal and work life. Writing down your resolutions, goals, aims is another way of doing this and planning your day, week, month, year helps to keep on track. Coaching has been proved to help make changes stick so find a professional coach who will support your resolutions in YOUR way.
Go EASY on yourself. Life has a way of throwing things at us when we least expect it, which can affect how able we are to manage change. Take each day as it comes and if something stops you from achieving success, don’t be downhearted; just deal with what needs to be done and get back on track as soon as you can. Remember, if you do give up, it is YOUR choice. Acknowledge that and move on …
Trust your INTUITION. It knows better than you might imagine what is good for you, so learn to listen to it and follow its guidance

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Write on your heart that every day is the best day in the year” and a new beginning can happen whenever YOU CHOOSE.

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