{"id":9150,"date":"2024-01-23T15:12:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/?p=9150"},"modified":"2024-01-23T15:16:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:16:31","slug":"2024-new-years-resolutions-3-ways-to-shift-your-mindset-and-change-your-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/2024-new-years-resolutions-3-ways-to-shift-your-mindset-and-change-your-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 New Year\u2019s Resolutions: 3 Ways to Shift Your Mindset and Change Your Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9150\" class=\"elementor elementor-9150\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a6986d2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a6986d2\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44e4146 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"44e4146\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>We\u2019re less than a month into 2024. How are your New Year\u2019s Resolutions doing?<\/p><p>Don\u2019t blame your character if your resolutions have already gone by the wayside. Chances are, it\u2019s not your \u201cwillpower\u201d but your resolutions themselves that are to blame.<\/p><p>Frustration and failure aren\u2019t because we\u2019re \u201cweak\u201d or \u201cbad people.\u201d It\u2019s because we\u2019re focusing on trying to change the wrong things.<\/p><p>Forget working for your resolutions. It\u2019s not too late to make resolutions that work for you.<\/p><h2><strong>Why Our Resolutions Don\u2019t Work<\/strong><\/h2><p>There are three primary reasons our resolutions don\u2019t work for us:<\/p><ul><li>We focus on a lofty endpoint instead of acknowledging\u2014and valuing\u2014the process and the work.<\/li><li>We\u2019re too vague and have no way to recognize our progress.<\/li><li>We\u2019re too specific and our achievements don\u2019t change anything meaningful.<\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The key to meaningful New Year\u2019s resolutions is to choose focal points that ultimately change our lifestyle and result in a healthier, more positive mindset.<\/p><p>In other words, in 2024 we establishing New Year\u2019s resolutions that make us better people right here in Bradenton. Sound too ambitious? It\u2019s really doable.<\/p><p>Here are three ways to shift your mindset and change your lifestyle this year.<\/p><h2>1.) Be honest about your starting point.<\/h2><p>Left to your own devices, what does a normal, resolution-free day look like to you? Try not to bring judgment to it; just picture how you behave within your life as it is at this moment, in the year 2024\u2014complete with the way career aspirations affect your day, as well as family obligations, financial priorities, and even your current emotional state and energy levels.<\/p><p>So many of our resolutions fail because we don\u2019t start by looking at the <em>complete<\/em> big picture; we imagine ourselves as being closer to our fantasy goals than we really are, while totally ignoring other important (and frankly valuable) priorities.<\/p><h2>2.) Focus on positive behavior (rather than overall goals or avoidance).<\/h2><p>Another reason our resolutions fail is by focusing on the goal without celebrating the process\u2014or by establishing a process that\u2019s about <em>not<\/em> doing something, rather than thinking in terms of positive actions we can actually perform.<\/p><p>For one thing, focusing on <em>not<\/em> doing something is just an unproductive mindset. It puts a behavior (probably something we enjoy) at the forefront our brains, and then tells us to think about it while <em>not<\/em> doing it. Torture!<\/p><p>Or we set a long-term goal and then spend our days thinking about how we haven\u2019t gotten there yet.<\/p><p>Instead, consider positive behaviors you can make every day or every week that will be little achievements\u2014and, equally important, that you will enjoy! Instead of a punishment, make your resolution something you can celebrate and even look forward to.<\/p><p>And along those lines&#8230;<\/p><h2>3.) Keep your personal inspiration at the heart of your resolutions.<\/h2><p>Who inspires you? Who amazes you as a \u201cgood person\u201d? What do they do that exemplifies their quality? Resolve to emulate the behavior you see in other that makes your heart joyful.<\/p><p>Though you\u2019re probably picturing big acts of volunteering or philanthropy (<a href=\"https:\/\/manateecf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">especially here in big-hearted Bradenton<\/a>), you might find that what you appreciate in-person are smaller acts like smiling at strangers, picking up a piece of trash, or simply bringing a positive attitude or an unprompted compliment to otherwise banal situations. Emulating \u201cgood\u201d behavior\u2014even without fundamentally changing your schedule\u2014generates self-improvement momentum like little else.<\/p><p>This is the sort of mindset change that leads to a lifestyle evolution. That\u2019s because these small but ubiquitous possibilities touch every bit of your life\u2014from how you feel and the energy you have to how you treat others and the energy you exude. It\u2019s a positive energy perpetual-motion machine.<\/p><p>Plus, unless you\u2019ve misjudged your own ethics (we doubt it), your appreciation for these kinds of acts won\u2019t change as time goes by. Therefore, you can\u2019t \u201cfail\u201d at your resolution because you\u2019ve chosen to acknowledge a mindset that\u2019s already a part of you.<\/p><p>You\u2019re just bringing the best parts of <em>you<\/em> to the forefront of your everyday life.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re less than a month into 2024. How are your New Year\u2019s Resolutions doing? Don\u2019t blame your character if your resolutions have already gone by the wayside. Chances are, it\u2019s not your \u201cwillpower\u201d but your resolutions themselves that are to blame. Frustration and failure aren\u2019t because we\u2019re \u201cweak\u201d or \u201cbad people.\u201d It\u2019s because we\u2019re focusing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[186,187,163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9155,"href":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions\/9155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagena.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}