Recording: Keeping Your New Year’s Intentions

By Mary Garcia

Roughly 80% of people who set New Year’s intentions abandon them by mid-February. If you’re struggling to stay on track, you aren’t alone! In this Meetup Live event, our guest speaker shares ideas on how to overcome challenges and keep your goals for the year.
Watch Tansy Rodgers, Meetup Organizer of Women’s Wellness: How To Eat, Move, And Think Happier, to learn the seven key steps to help make your goals stick. In this workshop, you will learn the basics that most people overlook when goal setting, how to overcome personal obstacles and make incremental progress toward the specific intentions you’re trying to achieve.

Main Takeaways/Resources for Keeping Goals:

• Seven steps to help make your goals stick:
  1. Know your core values
  2. Create a ritual
  3. Know your boundaries (and use them)
  4. Talk to yourself
  5. Pull the Trigger word
  6. 5,4,3,2,1…Go!
  7. Re-evaluate
• We need to have our A team, an inner circle group of people who support you in life that back you up. When the going gets tough, you know you can turn to these people for support and encouragement and help to move forward.
• Resources:
  • Tansy’s website for blogs, recipes, and more!
  • Instagram: @tansyrodgerswellness
  • Tansy’s Meetup group: Women’s Wellness: How To Eat, Move, And Think Happier (This is a women’s group)
  • Wild Flowers Grow Facebook Group

Top Q&A Questions:

• Can the countdown method help when I get caught up in social media?
  • 100%! A lot of times social media draws us in, I mean, it’s intentionally made that way. If you find yourself getting caught up in it, and that it’s not serving you, and that it is holding you back from the things you really want to deal with, then absolutely, you can do that.
• How do I find that inner circle if I don’t have one?
  • If it’s because you don’t have people in your immediate environment, you could go to some online groups or find some support groups that might be able to help you, or you can even go online and create your own group.
    If you feel like you’re not sure how to actually pick those people, I would recommend some self-reflection. When you’re interacting with people, ask yourself, “Does this person make me feel safe? Does this person light me up and give me energy?” If you can answer yes to those questions, then those are the people for your inner circle.
• Do you suggest having rewards for completing habits, and if so, what type of reward?
  • I do think that rewards are very powerful. But there are two things I want to say to this:
    First, the reward should not be something that is going to pull you away from your goal.
    The other piece of this is that if you find that rewards do not work for you, if you find that something that motivates you in the first place, then I wouldn’t really worry about it.

Meetup Team

Last modified on June 23, 2021