The 12 grapes of your goals and an elephant.

11:55, December 31 and my sister Caro pass me the cup with the 12 grapes and champagne, we prepare 3... 2 .. 1 .... Feliz Añoooo kisses, hugs everywhere and we began our ritual of new year make a wish for each grape.

In our latino culture that I shared in Colombia and Venezuela the 12 grapes representing the 12 months of the new year, now the question of the 64 thousand lochas. For most of our resolutions are not fulfilled in those 12 months?

Request without action, we hope that we fall from the sky, luck arrives at our door, that the universe will align, you have been of those who ask ! hopefully I win the lottery! but not even purchase a wee bit (number) of the same, you want to change the job but does not apply to anything new.

This year I will be disclosed to the tradition and just asked a desire Discipline and Commitment and repeated 12 times.

By that discipline and commitment? Why do you always ask , but when it comes to the next new year, I realize that it does not perform anything. And it is not the fault of the grapes, it is my fault for not putting action to the intent.

I think that this tradition our should we update, prepare beforehand, to present it in the family including a plan of action, in addition with champagne delight, according to experts on the topic of productivity this creates commitment and in a way it forces us to meet. 

In general, I am incredibly disciplined and committed to the sport that I'm passionate about, or in my work, so I learned of Betty, my mother, that work muchiiiiisimos years and it was a super breast workaholica . But in other aspects of my life I'm not, so my purpose for 2024 , is to take my passion for fitness to other areas of my life for the 12 grapes to take effect this year.

Am terrible at managing time, and my personality melancholy , does not allow me to start a different activity until I don't do what this doing, that makes me delay a lot accomplishing simple tasks.

Procastinadora professional, I start with a thousand projects and term one. This Blog was one of the many projects that happily came to an end.

Have to see this with the menopause, muchoooo. If you've read our post you should already know that the change is not only physical and hormonal, it is also emotional levels of stress and anxiety increase and can cause a depression tenacious.

If you are a woman sedentary, without healthy eating habits, you are entering to your room floor (40 years) that you have been negligent with yourself, and you only see by the other and you're the last one in the row amigaaaa you will need to change. And you know that it's hard to change a bad habit, the optimum, to change these attitudes, transforming them into routines, practices, and realistic.

How to eat an elephant

If you are very hungry, you could eat an elephant? The obvious answer would be no. But what if I told you that if you can eat, you can eat piece by piece, little by little.

Changing a bad habit is a task that requires a lot of, let's talk specifically of food, let's say today you contact a nutritionist who gives you the diet that you are going to put as the Cuchibarbie, which also promise that rebajaras this and that in little time you will be charged $$$$$ to the life.

Well I'm going to read the future, you'll lose weight if you are sufficiently disciplined, you will suffer for that you will be asked not to eat everything that you love, you'll be happy one day and miserable after when you ponds no longer lose more weight.

And then slowly and you can almost account, you'll gain all the weight, you know that? That “diet” is not suited to your life style, on the contrary you must adapt to the “diet” on a regular basis are restrictive diets that you can not keep time, the true purpose you need to achieve is a long-term solution, and that's just what you blast if you adapt healthy eating as a lifestyle.

As what you can get?

1. The purpose. Example: Eating healthy to lose weight.
2. The skill. Develop the ability to achieve the goal. Example: to Regulate my eating behaviors.
3. Practice. What you need to develop the skill. Example: Eat slowly and consciously.
4. The daily action. Small, specific tasks or behaviors, consistent repeat with the time, for they become habits. Example: At every meal, down your cutlery down between bites and take at least one breath.

A practice or action should be a small piece of something bigger, like when you learned to walk , first gateaste , then strode and finally rushed over.

The practice, also should be easy to understand and that fits into your real life. I mean, if your work is impossible to sit at a table to eat, or that your time is limited at certain hours of the day. You are the only one who knows how to adapt this small practice in your daily life.

Another example can be, let's say you take a lot of soda, 1 delicious and fizzy Coca-Cola every day, then in a single day consciously decide not to take it, thinking of your goal.

James Clear in his book Habits Atomic, says that one of the ways more practical to eliminate a bad habit is to reduce exposure to what causes it. It also says that the quality of your life will always depend on the quality of your habits and these are the compound interest of self-improvement, so the more tasks you can perform without thinking about it, that is to say more behaviors routine that will benefit you, but your brain is focused on other areas, and develop something that is known as The Effect of the Automaton.

In my particular case is that of time management, which I need to improve. So what I'm doing this new year, it is daily to write the small actions that I need to reach my goal in priority order and the time that I'm going or the specific moment in which I will make , what you are not able to perform that day, will be a priority for the next day.

1. Work in a movement that does not dominate , after each workout.
2. Start with the draft of the new post to 30 min
3. Study the nutrition course 30 min
4. Create a post to Pinterest 15min.
5. Read about Longevity 15 min.
6. Course worldpress 1 video and adapt it to my website.

Routine, in an intelligent person, is a sign of ambition. W. H. Arden

The idea is to create routines that become healthy habits that are sustainable over time and that lead us to meet our goals. Replace bad habits with good so you get results that last the test of time.

Identify your elephant, can be your weight, your mental health, your finances , your vices, your bad decisions, your inability to say NO (e,t,c, and eat it little by little.

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