Each year this time, people all over are making huge proclamations about how this year they will finally change for the better!  But wouldn't it be nice if we all just accepted ourselves and one another and just took the best care of ourselves! 

However, most of the self-proclaimed changes won’t make it to the end of January. Despite a dismally low success rate, I think it is a good time to get our priorities in order and reflect on what we have been feeling guilty about. It’s a time to reflect on the kind of person you want to be and the best kind of life you want to live. Of course it’s best if you can do this all year, but life gets in the way..… 

According to all research, if you try to make too many changes at once, or unreasonably big life changes, it can get overwhelming and it isn’t sustainable.  It takes a long time to form a new habit and drop the old ones, and most of us give up way before we've established a new pattern.

A more realistic approach is to make a series of small changes.  I really like this idea of breaking changes into smaller, more reasonable changes one at a time. This year, I've been reading about people taking advantage of the 12 months and making an important change, that will hopefully become a habit, by changing just one thing every month.