Your New Years Resolutions

Patience & Hustle Daily

Just before January 1st you start writing out your New Years resolutions. You post it all over Twitter, Instagram, facebook, snapchat, You’re going to get into shape. You’re going to start a podcast. You’re going to make $100,000. You’re going start your own business. You’re going to read 100 books. You’re going to, you’re going to, you’re going to…. You’re going to give it up 2 months later. That’s what happens. It happens because you go about these goals all wrong. You think just because it’s a new year, that something is magically different? Do you really think that because you now have to write a new year on the rent check, that somehow you are a completely different person? Just over night, you transformed into this go getter, get things done, resilient, persistent person? The problem is 2 fold. 1: You don’t remove time from setting the goal, to taking action on the goal. It should be immediate. You write it down, you action on it. Then you write it down the next day, and you take action on it. Immediately. Take time out of the equation. 2: Your goals are not big enough. Figure out what it is that you really want, then reverse engineer that. You have to know what you’re shooting at, in order to hit the target. Take the big goal, and chop it into smaller goals that compound as you achieve them. So stop waiting for the new year to start on your goals. That’s just an excuse for not taking action. There’s nothing new about the new year. It’s just another year. What you do today though, is what actually makes change, and makes a difference.