WORDS LAURA POTTER
All too often we set a goal, feeling full of enthusiasm, then stall and eventually quit. ‘Inertia stops us,’ says Lesley Lyle, positive psychologist and author of Laugh Your Way To Happiness (Watkins Publishing, £7.99). ‘You know you should go to the gym but you’d rather watch TV. I tell my clients to swap “I’ll go to the gym three times a week” for “I’ll get my gym kit on and go out the door three times a week”. Chances are, once in their kit, they’ll go to the gym.’
It’s all about setting achievable intentions, so you don’t risk talking yourself out of them.