{"id":15242,"date":"2018-01-08T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15242"},"modified":"2018-01-05T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:59:07","slug":"mind-matters-resolution-rebound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/01\/08\/mind-matters-resolution-rebound\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Matters<\/em>: Resolution rebound"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, with the holidays swiftly behind us and the first week of school in session, many of us are knee-deep in our new year\u2019s resolutions. Sadly, a lot of us won\u2019t manage to keep them. But don\u2019t fret: if you\u2019re one of those people, you\u2019re in good company.<\/p>\n

The majority of people don\u2019t keep their resolutions. It\u2019s not because they\u2019re abject failures or because they don\u2019t have wax-on-wax-off endurance; it\u2019s also not because they lack self-discipline. It probably has more to do with framing than anything else.<\/p>\n

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We humans are great at piling on the pressure. We start out with the best of intentions and then we just overwhelm ourselves.<\/p>\n

Consider the word \u201cintention\u201d for a moment. What a great way to rephrase and rethink the idea of resolutions. Instead of \u201cresolutions,\u201d which is so final and unyielding, try using the word \u201cintentions,\u201d which is much more flexible. It isn\u2019t that you want to give yourself an easy out, or that you don\u2019t aim to accomplish the same goals, because they\u2019re probably great goals, like eating better, working out more, and studying harder. You just want to have the ability to stretch them or give them a little tweak.<\/p>\n

The next step will be to consider each one of your intentions for the upcoming year in a realistic light; the best way to do that is to plan it out. Ugh, I\u00a0 know: this is sounding like a school paper and you\u2019re just not ready for that yet. I hear you, but trust me, just three short sentences will get the job done.<\/p>\n

Write down why this is your intention, and write down one way you will accomplish this. Be very specific: if you want to eat better this year, write down \u201cI will eat five servings of fruit and veggies three times per week.\u201d The more specific you are, the more likely you are to do it.<\/p>\n

Finally, record the time you are going to revisit this intention to see where things are at. It could be once a month, once a week, or daily\u2014whatever works best for you. The key is not to look at it as a deadline, but rather as a check-in point. You\u2019re just taking stock of what\u2019s working and what isn\u2019t. That way you can make a new plan to address any obstacles that have come up.<\/p>\n

Easy peasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, with the holidays swiftly behind us and the first week of school in session, many of us are knee-deep in our new year\u2019s resolutions. Sadly, a lot of us won\u2019t manage to keep them. But don\u2019t fret: if you\u2019re one of those people, you\u2019re in good company. The majority of people don\u2019t keep their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-january-10-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15243,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242\/revisions\/15243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}