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How to Stick to Your New Year's Resolution in 2022
Our best tips and tricks to help you achieve your New Year’s resolutions this year
The clock is ticking down slowly as you nervously await the new year. What does it have in store? How will you reinvent yourself? As the clock strikes midnight and you enter into what feels like a total restart, you’ve likely considered what you would like to change about yourself, your appearance, and your lifestyle.
But have you considered how you’re going to stick to these New Year’s resolutions? It can be easy to come up with personal goals as resolutions, but consistently sticking to these goals can be the toughest part. If you need help along this journey for 2022, here’s our guide for how to stick to your New Year’s resolutions this year. We’ll break it down into a few simple categories:
- How to stick to your New Year's Resolutions: Revitalizing your physique
- Revamping your look
- Recentering yourself
Revitalizing Your Physique
Guidance on how to stick to meeting your fitness and physical wellness goals in the new year
When you think about the most common New Year’s resolutions, do you think about weight loss or going to the gym? Yeah, so do we. Regardless of whether you have a specific goal to lose ten pounds or gain muscle mass or just stay active consistently, you’re not alone if one of your resolutions is to improve your physical health.
While there’s a world of self-help books, videos, and influencers out there that you could look to for different advice on this topic, one small way to stick to your fitness resolution is to pick up a new, interesting, and active hobby. If you’re not super fond of the gym environment, or heck, even if you are, picking up a new sport with a friend or group of friends is a great way to stay active in a more relaxed and exciting environment.
One of the first steps in picking up a new fitness hobby like this is by investing in the proper equipment and wardrobe. If tennis is something you’re interested in trying out, our guide for the essential equipment you’ll need is a great place to start.
An enormous part of gaining confidence in your fitness abilities is feeling like you’re prepared. If you’ve got the equipment for a new athletic hobby, it can also help to dress the part. Whether your new fitness hobby is tennis or another related sport, here’s the ultimate guide for athletic wear fitspo.
Revamping Your Look
Stick to your New Year’s resolutions by entering the new year with an upgraded wardrobe
A new look is exciting – it can bring about a renewed sense of confidence and feel like a complete rebranding of yourself. Whether you’re looking to completely change your style up, experiment with your wardrobe, or just expand your closet in the new year, revamping is a great way to make yourself feel revitalized and stick to your other New Year’s resolutions.
If you’re looking to try something completely new with your style, looking at upcoming fashion trends can be a great place to start. One trend that’s completely taking the fashion world by storm is the blazer-biker short combo, which is a chic and classy look that flatters all body types. Check out our guide for styling the blazer-biker short outfit to get started with your new style.
If you’re less focused on reinventing your wardrobe for the new year and more so focused on expanding it, adding some new and versatile athletic wear can be the perfect way to not only spice up your closet but also boost your motivation to reach your fitness resolutions. A new pair of leggings or tennis skirt can be just the motivation you need to throw on your workout clothes and hit the court, the green, or the gym. If you’re looking for some ideas on how to style these athletic outfits, check out this guide to putting together the ultimate tennis skirt outfits for the chilly winter weather.
By looking online and in magazines for outfit inspiration, it can help to inspire your own creative looks and ways to revitalize staple pieces in your closet. Experiment with the clothes you already have by pairing them with pieces you never have before and adding accessories to refresh your wardrobe.
Recentering Yourself
Staying centered while sticking to your New Year’s resolutions
Our best advice for sticking to your New Year’s resolutions is by getting in tune with yourself, deeply assessing your long-term goals and aspirations, and making a solid and attainable plan for how you can accomplish them.
If you hit the end of January, or even further down the road in the year, and it feels like the goals you’ve set are too daunting to manage, then reconsider the resolutions and the steps you’ve planned to take to reach them. There’s never any shame in taking a step back from the goals you’ve made and adjusting them for the sake of your mental wellbeing.
An enormous part of the process that influencers and social media never seems to depict are the hiccups and small failures that are bound to occur when you’re on your way to achieving your New Year’s resolutions.
Another great way to stick to your resolutions is by making sure that you have a support system around you to help motivate you through these challenging roadblocks and keep you going despite them. A support system can be your family members, friends, or even coworkers if they are also looking for motivation as they go down their own New Year’s resolution journey. Overall, it’s better to work at these goals if there’s someone there to hold you accountable and help cheer you on every step of the way.
Whether your New Year’s resolution is to become more physically fit, pick up a new hobby, improve your mental health, or rebrand yourself, there are a number of ways to keep yourself motivated through this journey. So go out into the new year and be a bolder, more confident, and renewed you.
