It all started with a simple 30-day challenge: to move my body intentionally every day. No grand vision. No finish line in sight. Just a quiet promise to myself to show up, every single day, for my health and well-being. Thirty days became 100. Then 200. Before I realised it, I had reached 706 consecutive days of daily training mixed between running, strength training, yoga and hiking.

Every. Single. Day.

Until I didn’t.

The first quarter of the year is wrapping up, and those New Year’s resolutions you had set might be fading or maybe they never really took off. But here’s the thing: the issue might not be your goals themselves, but rather that you haven’t included specific goals for your mental health and well-being.

We’ve come to the final in the three-part series looking at becoming unstuck, goal-setting, and now stepping into action.

If you find yourself a quarter into the year lacking motivation, willpower or drive to stick to achieving something new or starting or stopping a certain behaviour, then read further.

There are many things in my life that I am indecisive about, those which I deliberately avoid, procrastinate on and dread facing. But they all have one thing in common: they create a sense of being in limbo and feelings of being ‘stuck’.

We all strive to be confident, standing our ground and standing up for ourselves. However, the reality is that more often than not, we rather back down in an effort to avoid confrontation and to save ourselves from possible drama.

Change is inevitable, yet we all fear it because we don’t know the outcome. We prefer to know, to find peace in the knowing, and as a result find it hard to move on when something comes to an end.

If you’re anything like me, you know how hard it is to keep a New Year’s resolution. No matter how good your intentions are, it’s incredibly tough to stick to change.

Early during 2016 I read the book “The happiness project” (Rubin, 2009) in which the author went in active pursuit of happiness.

Not a day in my practice goes by where parents do not raise their concern about their child’s poor self-esteem, a mother complains of her feelings of worthlessness, or a top-student or highly successful businessman confesses his or her insecurities.

In today’s rushed life if you’re not mindful of the fast pace of life and the pressure you encounter on a daily basis, you will most likely end up in the wilderness of burnout: a place of emotional exhaustion, disengagement, and decreased performance.