With a new season starting, possibility abounds! It's the perfect time of year to check in with yourself and reset your goals and mindset.
I love the promise of Springtime for growth and personal change. Setting and meeting our personal goals takes work every single day. Life gets busy and it is easy to let the everyday grind get in the way of taking care of ourselves. I’ve found taking time out for a quick reset is an uplifting and energizing process to help keep things on track and ensure we are not only working towards but living a life that makes us happy and fulfilled every single day. Below are a few of my favorite tips! Comment to let me know how you reset your goals and keep yourself on track.
Setting big picture goals can be incredibly inspiring. Don’t hold back or feel intimidated when you imagine the life you want to lead. ANYTHING is possible with dedication and a plan!
The best path to setting and realizing goals is the everyday. What can you do today, tomorrow and every other day this week and next to make the changes that move you forward in your life. Perhaps it’s setting the alarm clock 30 minutes earlier to squeeze in an online workout before the chaos of the day or committing to incorporate a Ballet Beautiful series in your down time at night, after work or school. It might be stocking up on extra healthy groceries or packing your lunch to save money and help ensure that the food you eat is home cooked, healthy and fresh. Take a serious look at your everyday life across the course of one week and identify areas where you can become more efficient that will impact your happiness and health.
I cannot emphasize this enough! Change is HARD. We tend to listen to negative voices around us and dismiss the positive ones. The next time someone gives you a compliment don’t brush it off. Say thank you and give one back! Spreading positive energy is infectious. Let’s all treat each other and ourselves with a lot more love!
If you get discouraged do not focus on what you did not do, instead shift the energy to be more positive, “Im going to do X” rather than “I did not do Y.” Before you know it you will have moved on.
This is one of my keys for staying on track. Develop a simple positive mantra and play it on repeat. I can do this. I am doing this! Whatever the goal is when you tell yourself you will achieve it you are more than halfway there.
Remember exercise and a healthy lifestyle should make you FEEL your best. Forget about how you look and focus on how you feel. Your workouts should strengthen and empower you and make everyday life a lot more positive and fun.
Absolutely Wonderful!!! Thank for amazing message. I have passed on to several ladies.
Excellent, balanced tips!
I feel this message is so important, and is not as common of a mindset as it should be. When I am trying to make changes because I feel my lifestyle is getting too lax, I really try to think about what I want in the future versus what I want right this second. My struggles, like many people's, revolve around food choices and feelings and how the two correlate. So if I can manage to think, "when has a sweet treat ever made me feel confident/happy/beautiful," I can imagine my long term goal of health and ignore the urge to indulge merely for fleeting feeling it gives. Resets can be very powerful tools to show yourself that you are capable of living a healthy lifestyle and can reap all the wonder benefits mentally and physically. Being strict on yourself can be difficult at first, but it gets easier and easier exponentially when you have simply devised an eating and exercise plan and kept with it. Before you know it, this "strict" way of living becomes your lifestyle because you love how you feel. BB is soul strengthing and feels much like a support system, so that helps.
These are really great tips! And I'm so grateful that I found Ballet Beautiful. I always loved ballet, but the place where I lived when I was growing up didn't have any ballet studio. So I'm loving your ballet workouts.
Getting a routine going again after a setback (a cold, travel, an injury) can be challenging, and I have found that starting out respectfully, with one or two short workouts a day instead of crashing back into a hard routine works like a jumpstart for the body and the mind. A little bit in the morning and evening with pliés sprinkled through the day is doable, and instead of feeling 'this is so hard', your body feels like 'oh yes, I remember; this feels good!' and you can build from there. :)
Love this Mary Helen!!