New Year’s Day: it’s that magical time when people traditionally make grandiose promises, set ambitious new goals that soon fall by the wayside. Again. How many failed diets, how many unused gym memberships and dusty pieces of “miracle” exercise equipment result from this tradition? Enough, I say. Enough! Unless it’s sustainable, and sustainable in reality – not just in your impulsive imagination – such “resolutions” are huge wastes of time and energy. They’re also soul-killers. They set you up for failure. They teach you that goals and failure are one and the same. Bad, bad, bad! So here’s your choice. You can slog along with all the other lemmings and endure yet another round of such futile, annual self-flagellation, OR you can try something different. A new approach is just the thing when an old one fails you. Learn and adapt! That’s how life gets better and better is, well, better! In this case, you might simply opt out and make no changes at New Years. It’s arguably more productive than thrashing yourself and failing again like most people seem to do every year. Still, it’s not very satisfying, is it? Perhaps you can do even better. I’ve done just [...]![]()
