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The Key to Goals: Consistency vs. Intensity
Welcome to January of 2023; the New Year is here! During this time, we are inundated with commercials and social media posts (plus ads) for wellness products and gym memberships, and the overall vibe that we need to make something of this new timeline. “New Year, new me!” Sure, but is it really? It’s so easy to fall into this trap of feeling like January 1st is the day you finally “figure it all out” and become the person you’ve pictured in your mind’s eye for so long! The gym membership won’t go to waste this year! That new diet starts as soon as the new year hits! You’ll feel happy, healthy, and achieve all your goals.
But how much of this is truly sustainable? Going from 0 to 100, from holiday mode to health and wellness guru overnight, isn’t realistic for anyone…even me and I’m a health coach! What is sustainable though, is making smaller, incremental goals…not only for the new year, but for a lifetime of progress. And how do we make this work? We start with something I like to call consistency vs. intensity (or C vs. I for short).
Consistency implies doing something repeatedly, to make it a habit. Intensity is when we “go hard;” we go…
