Happy New Year everyone! I want to start off by saying thank you for sticking by me in my hiatus. It’s 2023! Unbelievable how fast time goes by. I’m sure you’ve heard all your friends and family making New Year’s resolutions. Admittedly, I used to fall into the ‘New Year, New me’ schtick, but I try to avoid it. I’m not trying to discourage you from reaching your goals, whether it’s to go to the gym more, read more, or apply to your dream job. However, there is a reason many New Year’s resolutions fizzle out by late February. It’s because people go too hard and end out burning themselves out. When they have no more energy, they skip and feel bad about it. They lose motivation from taking a da off and before you know it, they throw their goals aside. Truth is, you can’t just change overnight. You should start thinking of the New Year as just another day. Don’t put off tomorrow what can be done today.
New YEar is exciting but it's just another day
Change comes from consistency and dedication. Not from motivation, which is temporary. Also, little by little steps is how to improve yourself. For example, if you go from not running for months to trying to run ten miles in a day, you’re setting yourself up for failure. Instead, start with running one mile and go up from there. Speed and endurance will come with time. Another example, don’t go from not reading at all to reading a two hundred thousand page book. Be ambitious, but reasonable at the same time. A few New Year’s resolutions for myself are going to the gym consistently and eating out less. Oh yes, how could I forget about publishing my novel? This has been on my list of New Year’s resolutions for the past two years, but now things are in motion, so I am certain that 2023 will be the year that it hits the shelves. Hope you accomplish your New Year’s resolutions. I’m rooting for you!