8 Actionable Steps To Achieving Your Resolution

We’ve discussed how to set your goals and how to break them down into smaller, easily achievable steps, but what about the actual nitty gritty – how to make sure you get down to the hard work, actually make it to the gym, stick to your diet and get the results you want?

Here are eight steps to ensure you do just that:

1. Write Your Goals Down

If you’ve just gone through all the above section, you’re already far ahead of most resolutioners, but don’t lose that momentum – write down all your goals and keep looking back at them.

2. Put Your Goals in Multiple Places

Grab a bunch of post it notes and jot down various mini-goals on them, then stick them as many places as you can – your desk, fridge, bathroom mirror, in your car, basically wherever you’ll be confronted by them all the time. Seeing your goals regularly keeps them fresh in your mind.

3. Tell as Many People as Your Can

People often keep their goals a secret in case they feel embarrassed when they fail. Use this fear of failure as a motivational tool and tell the world about your goals. Those who want you to succeed and care about you will do their best to provide motivation, while those who want to sabotage your efforts serve as motivation to see their faces when you prove them wrong and reach your goals.

4. Get a training partner.

A training partner can be a tricky one, as you don’t want to always be the one trying to motivate the pair of you, but a good training partner is worth their weight in gold. On those days when you just don’t fancy going to the gym, a good training partner will give you a kick up the butt. You can return the favor when needed too, and a buddy can actually make the gym fun. Just make sure you spend your time training rather than chatting by the water cooler.

5. Set a Time for Exercise

You don’t just not turn up for work, or skip meetings, so take the same approach to the gym. Get your diary now and book out set times every single week for the rest of the year for your training. You’re twice as likely to do something if it’s written down. If for any reason you can’t make one of the sessions, change it at the earliest opportunity.

6. Keep a Training Log

Quite simply if you train the same, you stay the same. Don’t just go through the motions – keep a record of what you do in the gym and aim to get just a little bit better every session.

7. Progress Photos

Take a progress photo once a month to gauge how you’re getting on. If your goal is weight-based then weigh yourself too, or strength/performance-based then give yourself a mini test or competition to see how progress is going.

8. Keep a Food Diary

Despite being listed last, this is possibly the most important step. Diet is the main place people fall down, so don’t let yours slip. Write down every single thing you eat and drink. Firstly this serves as a way of making sure you don’t cheat on your diet, and secondly serves as a way of monitoring what works and what doesn’t.