Time out over the festive season may have you focused and determined to seize genuine change of mind or body. Setting realistic achievable intentions will help to avoid a “false hope syndrome” where early abandonment of your intentions through lack of reinforced progress occurs. Stay positive and be patient.  Most attempts at self-change take longer than most people anticipate. 

Charting a course for success is so often a team effort.  Articulating your intention to a supportive community can increase your changes of longer term adoption. Remember Jan 1 is just an arbitrary date. Committing to change is a state of mind that is transfixed on one specific desired intention, the date is largely irrelevant.

Expect that you might not succeed at first.  Repeated attempts at self-change take time.  Avoid internalising a failed attempt, instead reinvest your energy in resuming your previously abandoned quest with fresh determination knowing that genuine change is a state of mind conveyed through a multitude of simple and small actions and dogged determination.