This year we don't say next year. Setting a resolution is the first step. Working towards a resolution is the most important part. The top three most important components to setting and achieving any goal, like a resolution, are: 1. The Routine: This is your roadmap to your goal. If you simply set a goal and have no idea which direction to even take your first steps, you might wander around lost until you simply lose the motivation. Just like you get a route from your GPS when you plug in your destination, The Routine is that. 2. The Consistency: Now that you have The Routine, it is useless, unless you consistently do it. Our body is designed to respond to consistency. In other words, we are what we consistently do. If you truly want to transform any arena of your life (body, mind, energy, and the interworking between), it requires repeatedly doing/thinking/being that thing. For example changing a mental narrative that you have around food or money may be engrained in your brain from years of using and exercising that narrative when you experienced scenarios that provoked that response. Changing this innate and subconscious response requires conscious and intentional rewriting....time and time again... until it is the new "go-to" process. Think of consistency like creating shortcuts. The more we do it and use it, the more it becomes priority for our body. 3. The Accountability: This is the third and most overlooked component to setting up your goal for success. As humans, we have a ton of neural pathways that were originally developed for us to 1. survive 2. learn 3. adapt 4. remember 5. experience pleasure (just to scratch the surface of the pathways).... Fortunately, things have changed and most of us are not regularly in scenarios where we have to fight off a wild animals, hunt for food and make a shelter, survive adverse climates and challenges, etc. Unfortunately, as we have evolved out of these experiences and into lives filled with convenience and access, these same neural pathways now can lead us down the path of least resistance into compliancy, comfort, and avoiding challenges. The pleasure pathways once with a purpose of ensuring the reproduction of the "strongest genes", are now pathways often searching for a hit of dopamine from social media or porn. The pathways that had an original purpose to eat for survival and to stay strong for tough winters and long travels are now often what can lead to overeating and other food addictions. Needless to say many of our pathways got crossed....but the good news is we are still an incredible, complex design in which we CAN learn and understand ourselves. A major part to this journey of understanding and rewiring is accountability. We will tell ourselves the narrative that most aligns with this complacency, as I mentioned above.... in other words, we might say to ourselves, “why go hunt when there is a McDonald's at the corner?” Now, I am not suggesting that part of your resolution journey be to go hunt for your food in order to reach your goals, but I am saying that the accountability component will help become the louder voice to counter the inner voice that says McDonald's. One of the greatest forms of Accountability that we have developed for this very reason is Community. Humans need Humans. We are social creatures, and again going back to our most primitive selves, where many of these neural pathways were developed to serve us... we needed each other. There are a plethora of reasons for this but the ones which we stand by are the undeniable positive effects of support, love and feeling seen. We believe in motivation instead of fear. Rather than the trainer who yells if you don't do the reps, we believe in a team of cheerleaders cheering you on when you DO the reps. How to use this group: 1. Welcome, you are already here which is exactly where you need to be. 2. Every week this group will have a new tasks, thought process, guides to go from setting your goals to reaching them... for the ENTIRE YEAR. That's right we are here with you until December 31, 2024.... 3. Interact in this group! This is a learning and sharing board! 4. Explore the groups for resources to help support your goals such as the Un-Diet Group for food related information, recipes and grocery finds!