Many
Canadians are preparing to make their New Year’s resolutions, but professionals
are warning not to expect immediate results.
Money,
love and health are among the most common areas of self-improvement for people
in North America.
Nadine Newton, fitness manager at Gold’s Gym, says weight loss is
a popular resolution for a number of people following the holidays.
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“You can’t expect overnight change. Things happen in time. Your
body needs time to adapt to the new routine, adapt to the new foods that you’re
putting into your body, and really start to change over time,” Newton said.
And one Scranton University professor and author of the book Changeology agrees. Thirty years of
research at the university has helped John C. Norcross develop this five-point
formula to affect change in addictive behaviour: psych, preparation,
perspiring, persevering, and persisting.
But no matter the
approach, Robyn Carissa, a psychic medium, agrees that a new year often brings
about a search for a new opportunity.
“Everybody’s looking for new
beginnings, new hope, new promises from the year prior. Concerns that they’ve
had, trauma that they’ve experienced.” Carissa added, “They want to know that the
year coming up is going to be filled with some type of hope.”
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