Corin Hinderegger is a trusted guide for conscious entrepreneurs, CEOs, coaches, healers, and change-makers, helping them align with their most authentic, thriving selves. With over 20 years of knowledge and experience, Corin leverages an extensive range of certifications to provide deep, transformative support.
Whether we’re welcoming a new year, entering a new season in life or business, or simply embracing a fresh start, many of us feel pressured to set resolutions and goals that ultimately lead to failure. This can result in disappointment and frustration, as these intentions may hinder rather than inspire lasting change. The more setbacks we encounter, the more we diminish our capacity for sustainable transformation.
You’re likely familiar with the excitement of setting New Year’s intentions, eager for a fresh opportunity to create change. However, many find themselves falling short of their expectations, leading them to abandon the practice altogether. This pattern extends beyond New Year’s resolutions; it applies to starting new projects or seeking change in our lives and businesses.
The core issue is that most of us haven't built the capacity to sustain the changes we desire, or we pursue a version of success that misaligns with our true selves. We tend to set expectations too high, leaving us exhausted and depleted—often by week three.
To build new habits and achieve our goals with more ease, we need to support our mental well-being as well as our nervous system; this helps us to build the capacity to succeed in a sustainable way.
When we go too fast too soon and end up not being able to follow through with what we have set out to do, we usually end up in a shaming and blaming loop that signals to our nervous system that we are not safe. This contracts our capacity to create positive change even more, as our nervous system is in a reactive self-protective mode in this experience.
It also brings our self-defeating mode and coping strategies online, which creates a slew of issues disconnecting us more and more from who we truly are.
You can read more about how they might run the show for you in your business and life and how to ease their grip on you in my other articles, or by tuning into my podcast, The Embodied Thriving Self.
I just had a grate experience that highlights this beautifully; the other day, I went for a walk with my dog Alines, and my little one wanted to come along.
I shared with him that it was going to be a steep walk with lots of stairs, but he didn’t mind at first and started running happily. Five minutes into the 50-minute walk, he sat down exhausted. I continued my walk, and in no time, he was up and running again, catching up with me and overtaking me, only to end up running out of steam again.
I kept observing this play for the duration of the walk, thinking about how much this visually represents most of the resolutions of most people, especially high-achieving ones.
In the last five minutes of the walk, he told me he would not go for this kind of walk with me again… While it's obvious that we need to build our condition and our muscles up to improve our sports performance, we are usually not that considerate and understanding with ourselves when we set out to achieve something new or build a new habit, so we tend to give up.
Practical strategies to build capacity for lasting success
Prioritize self-care to expand your capacity for growth
When we start to make it a habit to check in first thing in the morning to notice what is present for us and what we might need on that day to feel nurtured and nourished, our whole being can soften, and our capacity has room to expand. It takes maybe two to five minutes, and we can even do this in bed.
Small, flexible steps lead to sustainable growth and success
Small, consistent “baby” steps get us a lot faster, a lot further than huge one-off action steps ever will.
Ask yourself: how can you break down your desired goal into smaller steps?
For example, instead of setting out to stop eating sugar completely or starting to exercise five times a week, I invite you to start small and grow this habit over time.
Maybe start out by cutting out sugar at home so when you are next invited out, you will not feel guilty eating a delicious piece of cake and can enjoy it. By doing so, it becomes a celebration of your success instead of a defeat.
Or start to exercise two to three times a week, being flexible when this will take place, as long as it will take place by the end of the week. The powerful shift that is happening is that you will most likely start to notice that you feel better or more energized the days after, so it is easier to do it more often over time instead of pushing yourself.
The same counts for how we show up in our business or any other change or habit we like to develop.
How understanding your 'why' drives sustainable habits
What is your why behind wanting to create a new habit or bringing in the change into your life you would love to see?
This helps our brain to be motivated and to stick to the course in creating this new habit.
As dopamine and sustainable habits go hand in hand.
When we only focus on the habits themselves and forget to celebrate the progress, we run out of steam to continue implementing the changes we wish to see.
The same is true for productive habits; start small and allow yourself to notice the difference so you can build the capacity to bring in more of the things that serve you over time.
The power of intentional pauses for personal growth and resilience
Integrating intentional pauses into our days, where we notice what is present for us and come back to observe the sensations within our bodies, helps us to become more resilient and build the capacity to hold the change we wish to see.
You can use your phone and set an alarm two to three times a day, during which you check in with yourself for two to five minutes or sit in the sun for a moment to recharge your internal batteries.
This helps us to create a sense of safety within our experiences. Which, in return, builds the capacity to integrate the things we know are good for us.
Many of my clients initially need to learn the importance of slowing down and reconnecting with their bodies. This often goes against societal norms and can feel counterintuitive, especially when they're striving to create success and change in life and business. However, it's essential for building sustainable capacity. Only by nurturing our internal connection can we ensure that the changes we seek are lasting rather than short-lived.
When we allow ourselves to enjoy the journey home within, to slow down, and to drop into who we truly are, our capacity can grow, and our external world has the chance to transform in ways we could have never imagined. The same is true for our resolutions.
We can see this equally in our businesses and in our lives, finances, and health. Fulfillment, health, wealth, and a positive impact are given when we embrace authenticity and our own individual nourishing pace.
To your aligned success.
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Corin Hinderegger, Transformative Coach and Mentor for Conscious Entrepreneurs, Leaders, & Change Makers
Corin Hinderegger is a trusted guide for conscious entrepreneurs, CEOs, coaches, healers, and change-makers, helping them align with their most authentic, thriving selves. With over 20 years of knowledge and experience, Corin leverages an extensive range of certifications to provide deep, transformative support. As a popular teacher on Insight Timer and host of The Embodied Thriving Self™ Podcast, she uses her intuitive gift to pinpoint what’s missing, empowering clients to break through limiting beliefs, rewire their experiences, and embody their most aligned and thriving selves—creating success and abundance on their terms.
Having personally overcome mental and physical burnout, Corin deeply understands the journey to wholeness. Her holistic body-mind-soul approach equips clients to trust their intuition, align with their purpose, and become their own medicine—ultimately creating lasting impact, health, and wealth..
