I hope you had a wonderful Christmas/Holiday season and
a Happy New Years!
We’re five days into 2012 and the new year got me thinking about New Years Resolutions and how it’s just nuts! People put all this added pressure on themselves and for what?
This silliness is on full display right now at my local gym. The first week of the new year brings in a ton of new people with new year’s resolution to lose weight or work out more this year and the gym is
crammed full.
Then the countdown to feeling like crap for breaking your new year’s resolution starts…
By the second week, there are less people, until the last week of January, when things start going back to normal. It’s amazing by February it’s just the regular folks at the gym, as we’ve done all year long.
I feel bad for the New Years Resolutionists who put all this added pressure on themselves to drop a few pounds or go to the gym regularly only to end up feeling like crap for breaking their silly resolution.
So just say no to New Years Resolutions.
I don’t mean that you should set goals and push yourself to achieving them—goals and planning are very important, but don’t put the added burden of a New Years Resolution. Just approach it like goal setting, not a crazy pledge.
This is important because a lot folks set New Year’s resolutions to succeed with their online business. But don’t make resolutions, what you need are goals, a plan, focus, and willpower not a New Years Resolution which will be all but forgotten by February.
Focus on tapping into your willpower not making resolutions. I’m reading a great book right now on Willpower called “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It“. Written by a health psychologist, who after years of watching her students struggling with their choices, realized that much of what people believe about willpower is actually sabotaging their success. She shares what the scientific community already knew about self-control, and she even created a course called The Science of Willpower” for Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program. It’s a great book.
Hi Alan,
I don’t tend to make New Year’s resolutions, but I do get excited about the possibilities the new year brings.
I am a firm believer in having goals, backed up by plans of action. There’s something about writing it all down that keeps it in the front of my mind.
That willpower book sounds fascinating. Just think what you can accomplish when you quit judging yourself and what you think about your “willpower”.
Thanks,
Peggy
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