OH! Magazine - Australian Version January 2017 | Page 33

( Emotional Fitness )

HOW TO HAVE A

GREAT YEAR!

Emotional fitness expert Heidi Di Santo shares her tips
to help you create your best year ever!

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year’s
resolutions
can
seem like a good idea. They get
you thinking about your future and
looking at what’s required to make it a
reality. But because they aren’t often
achieved, resolutions often set people up
for failure, which isn’t good for your selfesteem or your mental and emotional
health.

Instead, focus on what you do like about
your life and be grateful for that. The law
of attraction means that you create more
of what you continually think about and
focus on. As a result, you’ll attract more
of what you want into your life and the
good things will naturally grow. Doing
this is a much kinder and gentler way of
improving your life.

If in the past, setting and not achieving
new year’s resolutions has left you
feeling down, then stop torturing
yourself! Ditch the resolutions and do
this instead:

2. See every day as a chance to start
fresh

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1. Focus on what you do have and like
about your life
Resolutions get you focusing on what you
don’t have, which creates a ‘lack’ or
‘gap’ within you. Sometimes this can
provide the necessary ‘kick up the
behind’ to make the necessary changes
to your life, but more often than not
focusing on a ‘lack’ means you’ll create
more of this and start to feel bad about
your life. This isn’t ideal.

January is often seen as a way to start
fresh with a clean slate, in terms of your
life, but I’d like to challenge this ‘yearly
reset point’. Instead, why not see each
day as a new beginning? That way you
have 365 chances to improve your life
every year, rather than just one!
There are times where you’re going to
have a bad day. There are times where
you’re going to self-sabotage or
procrastinate or undo your hard work.
But this is normal because you are
human. If you only give yourself a yearly
reset point, you can make your life very
hard!

HEIDI
DI SANTO

YOU CAN CONTACT HEIDI VIA:
Web: heidi.com.au
Facebook: Heidi-Di-Santo-EmotionalFitness-Specialist-299600633422574/

If I’ve had a bad day, I feel safe in the
knowledge that tomorrow is a new day
where the reset button has been pressed.
Just like pressing the ‘control-alt-delete’
button on your computer, you can start
each day with a new attitude on a
different foot. You can wipe the slate
clean knowing that life can be different
tomorrow.
Don’t let one mistake get you down. Be
kind and gentle with yourself. Realise
you are human. Take the pressure off.
Let yourself have a bad day or a bad
week and allow yourself to move on.
Try waking up each morning and ask
ingyourself ‘what one thing will I do
today to make my life (and the lives of
others) even better’? Daily and consistent
action is key because it’s the small steps
that add up to make the big changes.
I hope this information helps you in your
life. If you want to know more about
being kinder and gentler with yourself
(which is often called ‘Emotional
Fitness’) visit www.heidi.com.au

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