Instead of setting lofty goals you probably won’t accomplish, I suggest a much easier plan.
This year, strive to be your best YOU.
Over the next year, that might include losing weight or increasing your exercise.
It might also mean improving your cooking skills, learning a new hobby or reading more books.
The greatest thing about the best YOU goal is that it doesn’t involve being perfect.
Your best YOU simply makes progress. You change things where you can and each day, you focus on small goals and plans.
Your best YOU isn’t an outcome. It’s actually an ongoing effort to live in ways that move you toward a healthier, happier life.
Each day, you simply take a few steps toward being your best YOU.
Examples of your best YOU:
Your best YOU doesn’t need to walk a mile. Instead you can take a ten minute walk and feel successful.
Your best YOU doesn’t cook a complicated gourmet meal (unless you want to.) Instead, you eat the apple in the basket on your counter.
Your best YOU doesn’t write a lengthy, detailed entry in your journal. Instead, at the end of the day, you write down one small win and celebrate your success.
This coming year, my newsletters will focus on ways you can take small steps toward reaching your goals.
Mostly, they will encourage you to live each day in ways that support being your best YOU.
Action step:
Write the words “My Best Me“ in your journal, on your phone or on a page on your computer.
Think about how you will work toward being “My Best ME.” Write notes, consider goals and build a vision.
Then today—live in ways that support that vision. Don’t aim for being perfect. Instead, simply strive to act like “My Best ME.”