goal setting
Why you should resolve to set better New Year resolutions. In February…
In the Guardian last week, Harriet Harman MP confessed that she fully expected to fail to stick to her New Year’s resolutions of drinking less, eating more healthily and doing more exercise. The plus side, she said, was that she could set the exact same resolutions next year: ‘as I won’t have achieved any of […]
In with the new
A new year always galvanises us to find ways of making ourselves better in some way - running further, losing weight, giving, or taking, something up. That’s why I love sitting down with my new training diary after Christmas and planning the year ahead. All those blank pages, waiting to be filled! I write down all my […]
No more false starts…
According to recent research, there’s a 1 in 4 chance that we will have given up on our New Year resolutions by the end of January. The study, from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, found that good planning and preparation were key factors in giving resolutions staying power. People who spent time laying the […]