How to Change Your Life in a Year: A 12-Month Plan For Self-Improvement.
Thinking about how to change your life might seem overwhelming. It's easy to feel like it's too late, or that you're not capable of achieving that goal. But with some planning and dedication, you will be able to change your life in a year. This article will give you the tools you need to make lasting changes for yourself.
This 12-month plan will help you make progress on personal goals with exercises, strategies, and advice tailored to your needs. Each month builds on the lessons learned in the previous months, with an end goal of helping you achieve your vision for life. The past is gone and can't be changed but this roadmap can provide you with a clear path forward as we head into the future together.
Create new habits
The first step is to create habits that will help you achieve your goals. Habits are actions that you take regularly and often don't even notice. These routines can be helpful because they allow you to establish a system for yourself without a lot of thought.
To make lasting changes, it's important for you to build a habit framework around your goals. This will allow you to maintain your focus on the goal at hand and make progress throughout the year.
But how do you build a habit? The best way is with an "if-then" plan of action.
For example, "If I get out of bed in the morning, then I will drink two glasses of water." If you follow through on this plan every day, it will become part of your routine and more permanent than if you sporadically did it only some days.
Build a healthy lifestyle
In order to change your life, you have to make a commitment to a healthy lifestyle.
If you want to be healthier and live a longer life, the following changes will help you gradually transition toward a healthier lifestyle:
Set a goal for how much weight you want to lose in the next 12 months.
Set realistic goals for yourself in regards to exercise. You can break it up into chunks so that it doesn't seem so daunting. For example, try walking more or doing some light weight lifting each day.
Find an accountability partner who will keep you on track if you find yourself slipping back into unhealthy habits. This could be someone at work, your spouse or another family member, or an online group like Weight Watchers.
Pursue your passions
Your passions are the things you love to do. They're what make life worth living. Your passions will bring meaning and joy into your life, and they're usually deeply meaningful to you.
The first step in changing your life is to find out what your true passions are. All of the planning, strategy, and action for this 12-month plan should be based on your deep-held interests—the things that make you happy.
You've probably heard "follow your bliss" before but what does it really mean? We all know the feeling of pursuing our passion like it's a drug—it's thrilling. But you also know how quickly that joy can turn into frustration or despair when we don't get what we want right away.
So, why not just follow our bliss? Because there might be an easier way to achieve the same thing! You might find that by pursuing these smaller goals related to your passion, you'll start making progress on the larger goal that brings fulfillment into your life.
Change your environment
It's important to remember that you can't change your situation without looking at the environment. Your environment includes both the people and things around you.
What are you doing when there's a problem? It might be time to reevaluate how you react to difficult situations. Do you get frustrated, lash out at others, or blame others for what's happening in your life?
When it comes to changing your life, if you need to change your environment, start with yourself. When you're feeling down or stressed, take time for yourself and do activities that bring joy into your life.
If this doesn't work, it might be time to look for new surroundings where there are different people and less stress.
Get rid of negative influences in your life
Negative influences can harm your life in a number of ways. They drag you down, make you feel bad about yourself, and make it difficult for you to move forward. You need to make a commitment to getting rid of these influences from your life.
The first step is identifying the negative influences. This might be family members, friends, or coworkers who make you feel bad about yourself. Or this could be people who just don't do well for themselves and drag you down with them.
After identifying the negative influences, it's time to get rid of them! You can't change them and they're not going anywhere anytime soon, so it's up to you to eliminate the negativity in your life by cutting those people out completely. The best way to do this is by ending any contact with those people as much as possible and doing what you can to avoid seeing or talking with them altogether. The less contact you have with those people the better off your life will be!
Improve your living space
For most of us, our home is the single largest investment we make. So it makes sense to take care of it. Doing so can help you to have a better quality of life and feel more at ease in your own space.
Here are a few quick tips for cleaning your home:
* Clean dust off window blinds
* Vacuum the curtains and vacuum the curtain linings separately
* Vacuum around furniture and along baseboards
* Clean bathrooms by wiping down surfaces with a disinfectant or bleach-based cleaner
Improve your food and drink choices.
You're in control of what you put into your body, so take responsibility for it.
Changing the way you eat and drink can be one of the most powerful things you do to improve your life. When you take control over your food and drink choices, you will be able to manage your weight more easily, feel better about yourself, and even achieve other goals like increased productivity at work.
But how do you know what changes are right for you? Consider these five elements that should be guiding principles when making decisions about food and drink: nutrient density, glycemic index, portion size, mood enhancers, and sustainability.
Nutrient Density
This means choosing foods that are rich in nutrients but low in calories. For example, 100 grams of spinach contains only 33 calories but 8% of the RDA for vitamin K1. This is an excellent choice because it provides many nutritional benefits without much caloric content.
Glycemic Index
The glycemic index is a measurement of how much a particular food impacts blood sugar levels when eaten. A higher glycemic index means that your blood sugar will spike faster after eating that food item. Low-GI foods include things like beans or oatmeal while high-GI foods
