Well that’s Christmas out of the way and now we turn our attention to the New Year. No doubt many of you will be pondering New Year resolutions and these will include such things as “lose some weight”, “improve my diet” and “get to the gym regularly”.

Now I don’t want to discourage you from this, but let’s have a quick show of hands. How many of you have ever made a new year’s resolution that was still intact by the end of January? Hmmm, not too many of you!

The problem is that January is a really depressing month for all sorts of reasons. If you’re in the northern hemisphere and not in the Tropics then the weather is bad and the days are short. You’ve probably overspent at Christmas, the bills start rolling in and the January pay-day seems an awful long way away. In these circumstances it’s hard to keep up the good intentions.

I’m going to make this really easy for you. The only resolution that you have to make is to buy yourself a copy of Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle and to commit to reading it over the course of the month. Then, assuming you think it makes sense you can write your goals and commit to a start date, perhaps around mid-February when winter will be easing off a little. You’ll find some techniques in the book that make these goals a bit more “stickable” than your typical new year’s resolution.

Good luck!