Simone Giertz Quotes

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

New Year's resolutions generally don't work for me. Or I don't work for them. I make them, like everyone else, but I can't think of one I have stuck to for more than 24 hours.

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

At the end of the day, I write down an 'L' or a 'W,' whether or not the day was a 'Loss' or if it was a 'Win.' It really bothers you to have to write down an 'L.' An 'L' looks like a day I ate a lot of junk food, or I didn't work out when I was supposed to or train when I was supposed to train, or if I felt that I had a bad performance in the ring.

I do have a lot of resolutions, but I don't really make them at New Year's much.

New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.

Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.

New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.

Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.

I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!

Motivation levels differ person to person, as does the time since failing new year resolutions.

I think if you want to prove something to yourself and not fail there's only one choice and that's to work.