Keep to your resolutions

American Morning “ Keep to your resolutions”
Jeff Gardere, Clinical Psychologist
You need to be specific, realistic and you need to make a plan. If you say you’ve gonna lose weight whatever you do be specific as to how much weight you wanna lose. Be realistic as whether you can actually lose it by a certain amount of time and of course make that plan written down and follow it.
Interviewer : Any plan I make I’m prone to change it immediately.
So see how you can improve it and see how you can follow through. The other thing you have to do is to write down your goal, put them on the fridge so you can remind yourself and chart your progress.
Smoking for instance:
Even if you don’t quit completely the fact that you quit for maybe 20 days is more days. It’s ok to slip.
What about family and friends?
Your mother haranguing
Family and friends are there for you and that’s great. That’s reinforcement. Maybe you can find family and friends who have made the same kind of resolution and you can do it together and be an informal support for one another. It’s the important thing that you have the tenacity, move forward and follow through. (pursue)
What should you do when you fail?
Don’t look at it as a failure. Look at it as a temporary setback because if you see it as a failure our chances are we gonna give it up, we’re not perfect and that’s part of the picture.