Welcome back everyone!
I hope all the recent festivities were excellent and that you had time with wonderful company during this time.
This is the time of year when you’ve probably set a couple of New Year’s Resolutions and are trying hard to stick to them.
Or maybe you are still trying to decide what to have as your Resolution.
Some people wait until the beginning of Spring before picking – new blooms, new ideas, new beginnings!
And others just don’t believe in them – fair do’s, there’s a lot of pressure around them; not necessarily from other people, but pressure you’re putting on yourself not to slip up, to be diligent – nose to the grindstone, out at the gym every night or every other night, cutting out sugar or reducing your salt intake…and all that jazz.
I just want to take a step back and have a look at what New Years Resolutions are for a minute.
What are they, really?
They’re goals. Future promises to yourself. A desire crystalised into something actionable.
I gotta ask you another question:
If you’re setting New Years’ Resolutions this year:
Are they goals that you actually want to achieve?
…or did you only set them because everyone else does, or because you think you should…cut out sugar, go to the gym every other day, eat more vegetables, learn to speak Spanish, <insert your resolutions here> ?
Because any goal, not just New Years’ Resolutions, is based on a future outcome – you can’t guarentee for sure that the goal you’ve set, and the path you’ve set to it, will be fulfilled.
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