TAKING ON 2021, UBF style

First tip for taking on this New Year’s resolutions: don’t. This year our New Year's resolutions should be resolute in forgiving ourselves and patience in the process. In the flurry of champagne bottles popping, countdowns to midnight, and fireworks to ring in the new year, we forget that fitness and nutrition change isn’t linear. As we enter the third week of January, how are your resolutions holding up? 

Our New Year's resolutions are often so hinged on the idea of success that we forget that failure is necessary for growth too.  It seems like at the end of each year we enter this tunnel vision of a slimmer, toned, or more muscular body. There has to be a change to our mindsets, in the resolutions we plan to keep to change our health routines, habits, and traditions. There will be days we aren’t at our physical peak, and  on those days we have to be the kindest to ourselves. There will be days when time well spent with family will hinder our ability to fit in a workout. Or a night out with friends will cause us to break our current diet. This year our resolution should be rooted in altering the relationship we have with our journeys to self change. A positive mentality leads to positive change. Negative mindsets are so 2020! Let’s be understanding that our progress will not always be forward. Let’s take on 2021 not by the year. Let’s take on 2021 day by day. 2020 tested us in more ways than one, but let’s continue to encounter life’s trials with an outlook that no matter how successful the outcome, we achieved some growth in the process. Putting this commitment to authentic growth in writing is an affirmation to the real change we want to make. Self change is about so much more than any changes on a scale or in clothing sizes. Let this post be a kickstart to make resolutions with the thoughts of real personal and lifestyle growth in mind. Let’s fail and succeed, let’s be human in 2021. 

Let us know how your New Year’s resolutions are going and tag us @UrbanBodyfix