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New Year's Resolutions? Use a Full-Court Press
This Week's Tips
You may prefer to accomplish your New Year's resolutions one by one. But here's an approach that might work better: Tackle them all at once.
That's right. When people in a study used this approach to achieve their health goals, it almost doubled the likelihood they'd check at least one of the goals off their need-to-do list.
Boost Your Success
Want to lose weight? Cut back on ice cream? Walk more? Cook healthier meals? We all know that making resolutions to change for the better is one thing, but keeping those resolutions is quite another. Here are a few more ways to help tip the scales in your favor:
4 Make-It-Happen Tools
- Get a diet/exercise buddy to help keep you on task. (Find a match on the RealAge community boards.)
- Look up healthier versions of your favorite foods in the RealAge Recipe Finder.
- Give yourself more of a kid's bedtime for a few weeks. Here's how resting up helps.
- Work hard on relaxing more. Here's why cutting stress will make change for the better more manageable.
Check out how much younger your RealAge will be when you accomplish all your resolutions!
RealAge Benefit:
Sticking to your RealAge Plan can make your RealAge up to 29 years younger.
Simultaneous vs sequential counseling for multiple behavior change. Hyman, D. J., Pavlik, V. N., Taylor, W. C., Goodrick, G. K., Moye, L., Archives of Internal Medicine 2007 Jun 11;167(11):1152-1158.
