The big problem with New Year’s Resolutions is that by sometime in mid-February or early March, most people have abandoned the goal. They set out to change something in their life, and then, a few setbacks later, they’ve fallen behind and decide to just scrap the whole plan.
“It was a valiant effort, right?”
You should see my list of goals for 2017. It’s absurdly long.
And I’m way behind on most of them. For instance…
- I have a weekly newsletter. I didn’t send it out yesterday.
- I started a daily vlog. I created 20 episodes in January. The last one was published on January 31. I haven’t posted on since.
- I had a goal of posting to several of my blogs every week, or in some cases bi-weekly.
The list goes on and on.
I could easily quit any of these things. I could easily look at the goal and say, “it’s far too big, there’s no way I’ll accomplish it all.”
Or, I could just look at all that has been accomplished so far and pick right back up where I left off.
I think I’ll just keep going.
Maybe you don’t have to accomplish ALL of your ambitious goals,for it to have been worth it,to keep after it even when you fall behind.
