In my previous post, I talked about how to succeed in keeping your New Years Resolutions. This time, however, I want to talk about how to fail at your resolutions. I find this to be important because more often than not we do fail, but don't understand why we fail. This is actually simpler than succeeding at them.
To fail at your New Years Resolutions:
1. Make them last second, like December 26th-31st.
2. Don't have someone hold you accountable.
3. Don't actually make a note of what you want to accomplish, just talking about it doesn't work.
4. Don't keep records of what you're doing.
5. Make them overly complicated and unattainable.
6. Be impatient.
Most of the time, if you can stick to the basics such as simplicity, record keeping, and accountability you'll succeed. You may not succeed quickly, but you'll succeed. Failure is much simpler and we often get wrapped up in the complexity of what we'd like to do rather than being patient and riding out the storm.
An example would be weight loss. Go into any gym in the United States in January and you'll see what we call New Years Resolutioners. These individuals pay for a gym membership (great for cash flow!) and use it for about a week or two and then quit. If you think about how long it took to gain that weight, think of at least 50% of that time to lose it. Same with smoking or some other type of addiction, it takes time and patience to break these habits and they cannot be done overnight. This is where accountability comes in.
To fail at your resolutions, keep them complicated and be impatient. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither are your goals. Think of reaching these goals like sailing through the ocean, sometimes it's rough, sometimes it's calm, but you'll eventually get to your destination.
To fail at your New Years Resolutions:
1. Make them last second, like December 26th-31st.2. Don't have someone hold you accountable.
3. Don't actually make a note of what you want to accomplish, just talking about it doesn't work.
4. Don't keep records of what you're doing.
5. Make them overly complicated and unattainable.
6. Be impatient.
Most of the time, if you can stick to the basics such as simplicity, record keeping, and accountability you'll succeed. You may not succeed quickly, but you'll succeed. Failure is much simpler and we often get wrapped up in the complexity of what we'd like to do rather than being patient and riding out the storm.
An example would be weight loss. Go into any gym in the United States in January and you'll see what we call New Years Resolutioners. These individuals pay for a gym membership (great for cash flow!) and use it for about a week or two and then quit. If you think about how long it took to gain that weight, think of at least 50% of that time to lose it. Same with smoking or some other type of addiction, it takes time and patience to break these habits and they cannot be done overnight. This is where accountability comes in.
To fail at your resolutions, keep them complicated and be impatient. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither are your goals. Think of reaching these goals like sailing through the ocean, sometimes it's rough, sometimes it's calm, but you'll eventually get to your destination.
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