Cebu City – Trying to achieve a healthier life this 2022? Like at the start of every year, people always figure to have a new year’s resolution, and a common resolution of choice would always involve something along those lines of losing weight or living a healthier life. But the sad truth is for others walking the talk is not as easy. Nevertheless, here are some start-off tips to at least push you forward to finally greasing those elbows.

• Focus on a goal. Having a goal within you guides and gives you something to work toward. In other words, it helps set your course for what you desire to achieve. Having a goal sets a realistic pathway for you to become more focused and motivated.
• Always see the big picture. Don’t narrow/limit down your mindset to just that dream, but always look at the bigger picture that it’s more than that. This will help you become more optimistic and extra motivated, and it gives you more meaning to what you set out that goal too.
• Commit for yourself. Sometimes a verbal promise to yourself is the best perseverance tool you can get to keep going. It is almost but certain that you will be impatient or have difficult days as you progress. That is why making a commitment to yourself helps remind you of your reason for change, and why it matters to you to do this.
• Expect and prepare to encounter obstacles. Like any normal human being it is with certainty that you will have bad days, or you will encounter unexpected obstacles that hinder or cause setbacks. It is within you of how you go through these challenges, we all have our unique ways of coping, but as the process becomes routine preparation for these problems allows you to become consistent.
• Give yourself a reward. Celebrate your own achievements since no one else knows how and what it took to accomplish them. Rewarding yourself makes you feel good and drives you to dream bigger. This is a form of positive reinforcement that gives you the feeling of success for other future ventures, and that is a much-needed momentum boost of wanting to do more, then it’ll just be one reward away in achieving a healthy 2022. // NO I Gabriel M. Flores, RND