Here we are, on the first day of 2013 and if my goals for the coming year and beyond were resolutions for the New Year, I would already feel like a failure! No, I haven't royally screwed up on anything yet. Not really.
See, one of my goals is to get more exercise and get healthier. Except I've spent nearly the last week in bed. I am pretty certain that I have pneumonia. I get all worked up and excited about a project I think I can handle... something like showering, or cooking a small meal. I crawl out of bed and 15 minutes into my 'project' I am coughing up a kidney and too weak to stand, so I end up back in bed with someone else cleaning up my mess.
This was not the way I envisioned my time off!
Too often, we get hung up on small details though. It's the first day of the new year and I can't even start working towards my goal! I failed!
Life is full of failures! Failures are experiences though.As long as you dust yourself off and try again, you are still in this! YOU are not a failure. We forget that. We let those events become part of us. We let them drag us down. We give up instead of shaking it off. I'm determined not to let that happen this year.
New Year's resolutions leave us feeling disappointed. They make us feel like failures because we make them much to broad and often impossible to follow through with. This is why I vow not to make any more of them! When I set goals in the future, I will set them on some random day of some boring week. That way there is no big build up. I just set a goal and get started.
I think I might be on to something here. We'll see.
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