Maintaining the decision is as important as making it. First of all, the question you need to ask yourself is whether you have really decided.
You want to lose weight, start a relationship, change jobs, get rid of a bad behavior, get away from harmful habits or addictions, etc…
Suppose you are on a diet to lose weight. You said you would start doing it. Is your weight really overweight or is it your perception?
If so, what are the possible harms that this excess weight has caused or may cause to you?
Are there any benefits to being overweight?
Why do we ask ourselves these questions?
Because what we are aware of will provide us with the motivation necessary to turn our decision into action and sustain it. Motivation will be our strongest source in implementing our decision. If you don't have awareness, the interventions you try to make in your life will turn into foundationless construction. Even if there is no basis, you will change your mind at the first difficulty.
If you have an awareness that you need change and you have realistic and valid reasons for this change, you will need to use motivational resources that will stabilize your decision balance towards change. My advice for this is to identify the pros and cons you perceive about the change. Remind yourself by writing or thinking and fill your mind with this realization.
Relationship hazards
Loss of job
Economic loss
Loss of prestige
Ethical – Existential
Health
Legal You can think about what disadvantages you will encounter in areas such as problems.
Your current behavior, habit or whatever you want to change can provide you with pros and cons in what areas. Remind yourself what changes will occur in the above areas if this change occurs.
After doing all this, you can move on to the decision part. You can clarify goals, timings and change strategies. On the other hand, you can also do your own analysis and compare previous experiments. You must answer honestly to yourself why it is not available to you. After identifying high-risk situations that may deter you from your decision, you determine your coping methods on how to overcome them. Moreover, doing this analysis allows you to use methods that worked in the past and eliminate those that did not.
Let's say we set the goal as starting a diet. Let's say you said the time is the first day of the week. By the way, you know, it doesn't have to be the first day of the week. The first days will be difficult, of course, as you will have to stay away from the foods you enjoy eating, they will be forbidden to you. At those moments, you will remember your list of pros and cons stored in your mind. You will choose the most valuable of the positives, and you will remind yourself of the beautiful changes that occur in your life when you stand behind your decision. Or before you take that action that will turn all your goals upside down, that is, before you make that move that will ruin your diet, you will take an item from the cons list and visualize it in your mind. We know that sometimes scaring ourselves with a nightmare works. It also proves that you are still in charge of your life. Besides, your only source of pleasure is not eating foods that make you gain weight! Isn't it?
In summary, no matter what you have decided on, if you feel like going back on a drastic decision, turn to your sources that will strengthen your motivation. That desire will not remain at the same rate anyway, it will fluctuate over time. Research tells us that cravings will diminish and disappear somewhere between 10 minutes and 60 minutes. Sometimes all you have to do is stop and wait for it to pass.
In conclusion. Every positive change you make in your lifestyle will strengthen your belief in yourself.
Isn't it worth it?
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