Don’t get me wrong, I love making resolutions as much as the next person. I love this time of the year, when it’s used properly.
There is power in starting your year off with new goals. There is a momentum that we can feed off of to get the jump start or to finally take action. The problem then arises when the momentum from the time of year dies and we then have to continue on by our selves.
We can get lost in the allure of the new year. We can get lost in ourselves and social media and the narative that this year will be diferent. But it won’t be unless we make the changes and take massive action.
Over the last month, I have been trying to “do hard things”. I succeeded more than I failed, but I did still fail.
One major fail was not making the goal to blog about it. I said I would but didn’t write it down as one of the “hard things”. Who knew that I’d have an easier time doing the hard things and a harder time talking about it?
The point is that I tried, and didn’t wait to push myself. Now, I can use the momentum of this season and the lessons I just learned from the last month to continue my assent to the person I want to be after 2021.
If you didn’t get a jumpstart on the new year season, don’t worry, it’s not too late. In fact it is never too late and that’s the point. We can decide to completely recreate ourselves at any moment. We just have to decide to do it, know why we are doing it and then take the first step.
Many people say that the first step is the hardest, but I don’t agree. I think that the 11th or 21st step is the hardest. It is here that you see what you are made of. At this point, it isn’t yet a habit, but you have also lost some steam from the initial push. You are getting tired and haven’t seen any rewards from your efforts. It is here that I have quit many, many times. It is here where I loose for no reason other than I didn’t push hard enough past the last bump. It is here where you make or break yourself. It is what you do here that determines whether you succeed. Many people don’t realize that it is just this one push that will separate the “successful people” from the average. One push, that’s all it takes. Granted you might need to take that one push in a few areas of your life, but the fact still remains that we are one push from a new level of greatness each time.
So take that 1st step, but remember that the deciding factor isn’t at step one. It comes when you are feeling too tired and haven’t been rewarded for the steps you’ve already taken. This is where you remember to go one more. To push farther than you thought you could so you can get what you thought was too hard to grasp.