7 alternatives to setting resolutions for 2021

Not everybody find journaling easy. The trick is to limit the time you write and find out the best way that works for you. 

You can write for 5 minutes a day in a journal or in you phone's notes section, it's up to you. 

Yvonne Thomas says:

"Writing can help frame your daily outlook to be more positive because you do not just see what’s wrong or missing in your life; rather, you are consciously recognizing what you have that you appreciate and feeling good about those things.”

Try to find everyday 3 minutes to sit, breath and relax. "The goal is to create a practice rather than an intention" says Stensby.

Don't start with a 30 minute a day meditation because you will lose interest and motivation. Instead meditate for just 3 minutes, it will be easier and it will become quickly an habit.  

Julia Mercier says that is important to reflect on what we lived through and accomplished during the last year. 

so take a pause and reflect about your 2020 before looking ahead, so we can create future-focused resolutions 

Wendi Weiner reccomends to choose one new skill to improve during this new year. 

If you want to improve some areas of your life, take online courses ( like on Coursera or Udemy).

“The key is to do something that will benefit your career or life through ongoing personal and professional development.”

Decide your year's theme. ( What area of your life do you want to improve?) For example if it is your health you can say yourself these questions:

• What would I need to do, be, and have in order to have more well-being in my experience?
• Will this decision make me healthier and happier—or not?

write down anything from the previous year that felt burdensome or distressing, including ideas, ways of thinking, habits, beliefs about yourself, or views about the world. Then, safely, create a fire and burn what you've wrote.

This is a symbolic way to make space for the new year and to start with an improved mindset.