It’s that time of year again. The time when some people are taking a long hard look at their lives and trying to decide what they want to change about themselves over the course of the next year. Some of us want to lose weight, or exercise more, or spend more time with our kids. The trouble is only about 9% of these resolutions actually happen.
In 2017, I was part of that 9%. Until this past year, I never really made New Year’s resolutions. Occasionally I’d joke about something, like “This year I resolve to become a billionaire!”. Of course those never happened. This year was different because I picked something I knew I could do. Something I would do daily so I never had an excuse to put it off until tomorrow. Something doable.
I’ve learned that’s the secret to succeeding with your Resolution. It needs to be something you can do daily, and something you can easily measure your success in. Otherwise, you’re going to resolve to lose 50lbs by 2019, and on December 19th at 11:23PM you’re going to realize that you’ve actually gained weight over the course of the year, and you now have 11 days and 37 minutes to lose 72lbs.