Set Intentions, Not Resolutions

​While this year may feel different than other Januarys, there’s still talk of resolutions. But this year – and every year -- I’m encouraging friends, clients, and loved ones to set intentions rather than resolutions. Here’s why:

1) Intentions are flexible and adaptable. With almost a year of pandemic still raging and an insurgency shaking our faith, we need to be flexible and adaptable. This sets us up for psychological flexibility and resilience, cornerstones of feelings of happiness and ease.

2) Resolutions set people up for feelings of failure. With public health, political, and garden variety personal stressors thrumming on in our lives, we don’t need any more feelings of defeat when we don’t run a 5k after a few weeks of training or after they forget to floss one night.

3) Intentions give less opportunity to predatory industries like the diet industry to cash in on resolutions because resolutions tend to be more rigid.

4) Intentions are aspirational and can be qualitative rather than quantitative while still aiming at a goal.
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So this year, give yourself the gift of an intention rather than a resolution. If you’d like support in working with your intention, feel free to schedule a consultation.