My Top 3 Goals in the New Year

Good or bad it is officially the holiday season.  Thanksgiving is a not so distant memory, Christmas Day is looming and the New Year is right around the corner.

So today I thought to myself why not start early on my top 3 goals in the New Year before I get too caught up in the frenziness of the holidays…

 

Goal 1:

Make Clean Eating a regular part of my lifestyle

I’ve fallen off from clean eating more often than not this past year so in 2019 I resolve to do the following:

  • To not give in so much to temptation (mainly unhealthy eating)
  • To try harder to eat unprocessed, locally sourced foods that I (preferably) cook myself
  • To snack less and instead eat several small meals during the day
  • To drink more water in between meals
  • To eat more whole grains, veggies and fresh produce

 

 

Goal 2:

Work out smarter

It is a fact that I currently work out 5 weekday mornings a week but to tell you the truth I could be working out smarter as opposed to harder.  Here’s what I plan on doing in the New Year:  hydrating during my workouts, using heavier more challenging hand weights while working out and doing cardio after my team training, not before.

 

 

Goal 3:

Step up my retirement savings plan

I am 56 years old and not too far away from the legal retirement age so I resolve in 2019 to start putting away more money towards my retirement as it’s looming and will be here before you know it.

 

 

On that note, Cheers to the Holiday Season!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year!

I have mixed emotions this time of the year…on the one hand I’m sad to realize that another year flew by so quickly…on the other hand I’m eager to have the opportunity to start fresh with new beginnings, new ideas, new thoughts, new challenges.  I stopped making resolutions years ago when I realized that I simply wasn’t keeping them.  By February they felt  old and foreign to me.  So now I make simple affirmations.  They are much more positive and I don’t feel a time constraint.  I only make a few of them at a time and I mostly always achieve them because they’re based on things that matter to me.

Here’s wishing this year brings you and yours everything you hope, dream, wish and desire in a timely fashion.

Cheers!

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