5 New Year’s Resolutions you can actually keep.
As Christmas fades into memory, many young people shift their focus to the upcoming new year. This transitional period offers a unique opportunity for reflection and intention-setting. New Year's resolutions have become a popular way to establish personal goals, but it’s crucial to approach them with a realistic mindset. While aiming high can be motivating, setting unrealistic expectations can lead to frustration rather than fulfilment.
This year, consider breaking down your goals into small, manageable steps that fit seamlessly into your daily routine. Remember, self-compassion is key; it's okay not to meet every objective on tough days. Embracing this balanced approach can significantly enhance your mental health and overall well-being as you step into the new year.
Here’s our top 5 New Years Resolution ideas to get you started.
Get Outside
It may sound a bit obvious but spending more time outside has been shown to improve your mental health, reduce stress, lift your mood and help you to feel more connected to your environment.
You don’t need to walk miles and miles, simply just stepping out side into your garden, going the park or beach. It really doesn’t matter too much where you get your outdoors time just do it everyday.
Take more notice
Actively try to take more notice of what is happening around you. You could use a note book to write down your observations. Taking more notice of what is happening around you helps you to feel more connected to yourself, where you live, you place in nature and the people around your.
Take notice of the weather, the changing seasons, the way the light changes the look of the environment, the way the rain sounds on your window. It doesn’t really matter what you take more notice of juts try it and see how it makes you feel.
Move More
Its easy to fall into the habit of sitting for long periods of time. Moving more have shown to significantly improve your mental and physical health. You don’t need to walk for miles just try to be disciplined in making sure you get some exercise in everyday.
Clean Your Room
Cleaning your room is much more than just having a tidy space, cleaning your room is really a first step in organising yourself. Your room is your personal space and in that sense you should treat it as an extension of yourself. Tidy room, Tidy Mind.
Our environment has huge effects on our psychological wellbeing. It is easy to feel overwhelmed, stressed and bogged down when our environments are cluttered and unorganised.
Cleaning your room is really a tool for improving your self esteem and mental wellbeing.
Clean up your sleep routine
Getting quality sleep should really be a high priority for everyone. Sleep effects all of your bodies function and poor sleep can have really obvious effects on your physical and mental wellbeing.
Be sure to check out our Sleep section in the HUB for ideas and help on understanding sleep and how you can improve your sleep hygiene.