New Year’s Resolutions Quotes: Start Your Year Off Right
Looking for some motivation to succeed with those New Year’s resolutions? There is no better way to keep your eye on the prize than to have a few motivational quotes in your back pocket. Find quotes to keep you on track for weight loss, work performance, grades, staying present, and more.
As the new year fast approaches, many people are feeling ready for a new year and hoping for a "new me."
As the tradition goes, come January 1st, you could have your list of New Year's resolutions in place, but how can you make sure that these changes stick?
New Year, New You: Turn Up The Dial For Change
While all New Year's resolutions start with the best of intentions, after a few weeks of initiating new goals, old habits tend to creep back in.
Why?
Your brain is wired to do what it's always done – even if it's not in your best interest. When your brain notices change, its first instinct is to fight back to keep you in the old familiar habits that it knows and loves. While it may seem unfair, this is actually an ancient mechanism that was picked up over years of survival in the wild. For most of human history, keeping the status quo meant keeping you safe from danger.
When it comes to making positive changes, however, adaptation can work against you.
That's where Brain Harmony can enhance your brain's openness to change and keep you on track with your new goals by rewiring the nervous system, upon which real change is possible.
Brain Harmony can help you reach your New Years goals in several ways:
#1 Keep Calm
One of the most common reasons that we give up on our New Year's resolutions is stress. Life gets busy, you feel overwhelmed, and suddenly it feels like a heroic effort to go to the gym after work instead of sitting down with a nice glass of wine.
At Brain Harmony our first step is to always work with vagal tone, enhancing your ability to reach states of calm – no matter what's happening in your life. When your nervous system is primed for calm, any stressor that comes your way becomes much more manageable.
This allows you to stay calm and stay open instead of getting swept up in the unnecessary dramas of your mind and nonfunctional, repetitive patterns.
There are four specific steps to C.A.L.M. that we recommend to improve behavior, focus, social skills, stress, learning, and so much more. Click here or on the image below to download our PDF containing our tips for a healthy new you (and your family) in the New Year.
#2 Enhance Neuroplasticity
For you to make personal changes in your life, your brain must get on board. The problem is, your brain doesn't like change.
Neuroplasticity is a term that describes your brain's ability to adapt and form new connections. When your brain is more neuroplastic, you have a much easier time learning new information, changing your unconscious beliefs, and creating new, healthier habits.
The old neurological connections in your brain that keep you stuck, such as "you'll never be able to lose the weight" or "you'll always be behind at work," are only as powerful as you allow them to be. When you enhance your brain's neuroplasticity, it can pick up on new habits and empower beliefs much faster – allowing for real change in a short amount of time.
#3 Motivation
Why do you stop healthy habits? You lose motivation.
As you move through the Brain Harmony protocol, you'll be introduced to higher frequencies that elevate your mood and enhance your creativity and motivation.
This makes crossroads such as "Should I put in the extra hour of work or go home and put on some Netflix?" an easy decision. A motivated mind is energized and ready to keep going. It helps you believe in yourself, which is the key to permanent change.
Whatever your goal may be – losing weight, getting fit, better grades, more efficiency with work, getting organized, staying present, or the myriad of other options – staying motivated is absolutely crucial to the big picture.
While keeping quotes around to remind you of your goals is an excellent tactic, you can supercharge your motivation by going right to the source – your neurological wiring.
To help you choose some motivation, we have included some of our favorite quotes that our therapists use.
One of the best ways to stay motivated is to keep reminders around. And there is no better reminder than a motivational quote.
New Years Resolution Quotes
Quotes For Getting Organized
Clean out the garage, organize your workspace, and clear out what's no longer serving, with the help of the below quotes:
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplify, simplify." - Henry David Thoreau
"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it." - Olin Miller
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - Francis of Assisi
Quotes For Losing Weight
Stay motivated to eat real food, strengthen your vestibular system, move your body, and remember why you're doing it, with the below quotes:
"It's about taking the time before food goes in your mouth to be aware: Am I aware that I'm eating this? And am I eating it because I'm hungry or because I need to soothe myself?" - Valerie Bertinelli
"Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumbbell; it starts in your head with a decision." - Toni Sorenson
"Success is the sum of small efforts — repeated day-in and day-out." - Robert Collier
”Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food."- Hippocrates
"Exercise should be regarded as a tribute to the heart." - Gene Tunney
Quotes For Improving Grades
Get ahead in school and make the most out of your education with the help of the below quotes:
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would be amazed." - Thomas Edison
"Your talents and abilities will improve over time, but for that you have to start." - Martin Luther King
"True education is about getting the best out of oneself." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The wonderful thing about learning something is that nobody can take it from us." - BB King
"The champions keep playing until they do well." - Billie Jean King
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at." - Stephen Hawking
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier
Quotes For Empowerment
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” - Jeremiah 29:11
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for good people of good conscience to remain silent.” -Thomas Jefferson
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Quotes To Improve Work Efficiency
Hand in your projects on time, come to meetings (overly) prepared, and show your coworkers your true value with reminders from the following quotes:
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
"The more I work, the more luck I seem to have" - Thomas Jefferson
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - General Colin Powell
"Power Isn't given to you. You have to take it." - Beyoncé
”Success doesn't come to you, you go to it." - Marva Collins
"Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of an effort of intelligence" - John Ruskin
"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well." - John D. Rockefeller
Quotes For Living In The Moment
Stay present, become more mindful, and live life in the moment, with the help of the following quotes:
"If you were conscious, that is to say totally present in the now, all negativity would dissolve almost instantly. It could not survive in your presence." - Eckhart Tolle
"Your life requires your mindful presence in order to live it. Be here now." - Akiroq Brost
"Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow." - Catherynne M. Valente
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present." - Alice Morse Earle
"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more." - Mother Teresa
"Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment." - Deepak Chopra
"Always hold fast to the present. Every situation, indeed every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Favorite of the Week
Lara and Carol’s Favorite of the Week to “motivate” your nervous system to stay focused, get better sleep, unwind, and restore, is the Apollo Neuro. The new Scheduling feature within the Apollo app is a great bonus, in sticking to your healthy routines and prioritizing your mental wellbeing and supplement your Brain Harmony plan.
Reset and rebalance in the new year
Apollo is the perfect tool to reset your approach to health and happiness in the New Year:
Help set yourself up for healthier routines and habits
Apollo can help you stick to your goals, from sleeping better, relying less on substances to unwind, being more mindful, carving out quality time for family and friends
Get the benefits of meditation just by wearing your Apollo - its a low-effort way to support big changes
New Feature focus: Scheduling feature now available through the Apollo app
Introducing Scheduling from Apollo: a new feature that allows you to create a schedule that auto-plays your favorite modes, no phone required. Read more about the launch of Scheduling on the Apollo Blog.
Help set yourself up for healthier routines by scheduling your calm in advance and find flow through your day and into the night
With this new feature, your Apollo schedule can help you plan and stick to your goals, from waking up, getting focused, recovering from strain, to falling asleep
Your Apollo schedule can help you achieve small wins every day to keep you on track
Set up your schedule:
Using your Apollo app, click on the clock icon at the bottom of the home screen
Select your favorite modes and schedule them to play whenever you want, anytime of day, any day of week
Modes will automatically play on your schedule, with no need to use your app or device
Below you will find a sample schedule to help with any creative ways to implement in your own channels:
Schedule Energy and Wake Up on weekdays for a silent but effective alarm clock
Schedule Social and Open on weekdays to prepare for work, events, or family time
Schedule Relax and Unwind in the evenings to wind down from a busy day
Schedule Sleep and Renew 30 minutes before bedtime to promote a healthy sleep routine
Learn more here or click the Apollo image for more information on how to use your Apollo Neuro as a support item with the your new plans, new motivations, and sticking to your resolutions!
Takeaway
If you're excited to set some New Year's resolutions and make healthy changes in your life, make sure you set yourself up for success.
Write down some of the quotes above and hang them on your mirror or refrigerator, or keep them in your wallet or by your bedside. You can even set your phone background as an inspirational quote to keep you going.
It's easy to get busy with life once January 2nd hits, so get ahead of the hassle by setting up visual cues wherever you can.
If you've found in the past that keeping those resolutions is a lot more challenging than you expected, you would likely benefit from a program like Brain Harmony.
Brain Harmony not only enhances your ability to make changes but it supports cognitive processes that will make you much more efficient in daily tasks.
Schedule a Free Consultation today to learn more.