6 Healthy New Year’s Resolutions You Can Actually Keep

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6 Healthy New Year’s Resolutions You Can Actually Keep

When a new year rolls around, it seems like the perfect time for a “new year, new me” mentality by setting new year’s resolutions. Especially after the ups and downs, the past two years have seen us through, undergoing a lifestyle change seems like just what the doctor ordered.

However, setting a resolution can be the hard part. There are so many different areas of health and wellness you can target that choosing one can seem overwhelming — but it doesn’t have to be. Here are five new year’s health resolutions you can actually keep. 

Healthy New Year’s Resolutions

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1. Drink More Water

This resolution is one that everyone can agree on. Drinking water is important not just for your physical health, but to support you emotionally and mentally, too. When a plant is drooping, water usually perks it up — the same can be done for you!

If you struggle to drink enough water throughout your day, here are some ideas to make drinking more water more realistic and fun:

• Challenge yourself to drink a full glass of water first thing in the morning, before even getting out of bed
• Get a reusable water bottle with a straw to keep near you while you’re working, driving, working out, and next to your bed.
• Prepare infused water (lemon and ginger, cucumber and lemon, etc.) to keep in your fridge to give water a fun taste

If you want to make drinking water into a game and challenge yourself further, use the water intake tracker to see how much water you can drink in a day, per CDC recommendations for both men and women. 

Download the Printable Daily Water Intake Tracker

2. Prepare a Morning and Evening Routine

Especially if you’re an entrepreneur or working from home, each day may look different — you may start some days by 30 mins scrolling through TikTok in bed and end it on the couch, while others you’re up at 6 a.m. for a workout and in bed at 8 p.m. with a good book. This underlines the importance of having a morning and evening routine to give you days uniformity and structure.

To give your days some structure and give yourself something to look forward to each day, try preparing a daily schedule to start and wind down the day. This doesn’t mean you have to adhere to it by the letter each day, but having a rough outline of how you start and end the day can help you plan things that keep you happy and healthy.

3. Prioritize Your Health

One of the easiest health-related resolutions you can make is simply to put your health first, and there’s no better way to do that than with pre-planning all of your annual doctor’s appointments throughout the year. No one looks forward to going to the gynecologist, dentist, or PCP, but doing so helps you ensure you’re staying on top of your health.

To help you put your health first in 2022, use these yearly health appointment stickers to stay ahead of appointment planning. These help you track when and where your appointment is so you can be sure you’re planning it before you’re too busy to make it.

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4. Get Outside Each Day

Getting some time in the great outdoors each day is an easy resolution to make, and an easier one to keep. Spending any amount of time outdoors can have significant benefits for your health, not only physically but mentally and emotionally, to boot. 

Getting outside can look like whatever works best for you and your schedule — a quick walk around the block, a long hike on a weekend morning, or sitting on your patio to enjoy your morning cup of coffee. 

5. Understand Your Mood

The past two years have seen us through more ups and downs than we ever expected we would face. On a personal level, things have likely shifted for you emotionally, and understanding how you’re feeling can be a key for unlocking other physical or mental health struggles you may be facing. 

To help you track your feelings to see if anything could be troubling you, use this mood tracker to track your mood for a month. This includes times you feel happy, times you feel anxious or angry, and any other moods you may experience. You can then bring it to a therapy appointment or check-up with your doctor.

Download the Printable Mood Tracker

6. Choose Your Version of Self Care

A good self-care routine is vital to help you prioritize yourself, your needs, and what keeps you happy. Self-care looks different to everyone, and each person has their own version of what helps them feel better and like they are caring for themselves. Below are some examples of what self-care could look like:

• Sunrise yoga followed by a 15-minute meditation
• Saying affirmations in the mirror
• Daily walks to get coffee while listening to a podcast
• Morning journaling
• Taking a bath with a face mask and red wine

If you haven’t found your version of self-care yet, challenge yourself this year to find a routine you enjoy and incorporate it into your schedule once (or more) per week.

Once you’ve narrowed down your health resolutions to focus on over the past year, the next part is making them stick. To stay on track with your goals and keep yourself accountable, use this printable resolution goal tracker to keep all of your resolutions in one place. This gives you a point of reference as to what your goals are, as well as what is (and isn’t) working to achieve them. 

Remember that new year’s resolutions aren’t to guilt you or make you feel unaccomplished. Resolutions are about choosing small ways to better yourself so that by the time December 31 rolls around, you can look back at the past year and see in what ways you’ve improved your life and changed.