Well here we are ready to stand face to face with a brand new year once again. Many love this time of year as it is an opportunity to reflect on our days past and to consider our future.
Well that means it is time for each of us makes resolutions It is time to make those commitments to change something about ourselves or the life that has presented itself to us in the out going year.
Well it is very Unfortunate that our resolutions will typically only lasts for a few days and then once again…
You guessed it…we find find ourself right back with the same situation or habits that we swore we would never
visit again.
Why is it that we tend to fail miserably at achieving these resolutions so easily?
I have been doing some thinking on this and I feel it has something that probably falls somewhere between our intent and the realities of life that tend to impose themselves upon us.
New Years is wonderful… The new year is something that marks a brand new beginning. It seems to give us a sense of new hopes and renewed energy.
There is just something about the excitement of the brand new year that compels us to really make some very radical changes in our life.
I have been trying to figure out if this year will be even more dramatic or if we will see less resolutions being made.
On one hand we have been going through some major economic changes in our lives over the past year, talk of recession, job losses, crazy gas prices, home heating, major stock market crashes that are pretty much depleting retirement accounts, major business and industries going under.
OK enough depression I am sure you get the point… Heck you have been living with it in your life the last year.
With all of the craziness going on with the down turn of our economy, many are ready for change and will go looking.
There are those that will charge full force into the New Year filled with hope and excitement and will once again pursue the dreams and goals and they will believe with every ounce of their being that the possibility of positive change is lurking right around the corner.
On the other hand I have talked with those that seem to have given up hope, and really don’t see any possibilities of their hopes and dreams every becoming reality, and really see no sense in making silly New Years resolutions. Whats the sense…something out of their control will just come along and put out the light once they get it re-lit anyways.
The third person will enter into the New Year with a skeptical and cautious hope. Wanting it desperatly but not fully believing that it can or will really happen for them. But just maybe if they hold on long enough they will catch a long awaited lucky break.
One thing in common that all 3 people have is the possibility of failure.
I am sure it is easy to see how person number 2 and 3 will fail but what about the person that is charging full force full of life and enthusiasm into the New Year ahead fully expecting change to happen.
Well I believe that sometimes we get so excited that we lose a bit of perspective, or all sense of reality. We are forgetting all of the parameters that really tend to govern our lives and the demands of life that are going to be in competition for our attention.
I see this all of the time with students who come all eager to get started making money online thinking it is their time, and as soon as they get into things a little ways they start realizing their job or family is taking so much time that they really don’t see how they can possibly make it work.
They stop attending coaching classes and send me an email after awhile letting me know how sorry they are that they have not been attending but they have just been to tired at the end of the day to pursue a dream.
We think we can take on the world and we really feel we are ready for it but once reality of life sets in, we can become easily discouraged and we lose our focus and hope.
Instead of re-looking at the goals and seeing if there isn’t a better way to go about things, we just say oh well It was just a silly dream anyways and it isn’t like I haven’t broke resolutions in the past.
Sometimes the dream is so big that we forget to put smaller more achievable and measurable steps in place to help us stair step our way to the big goal. In this case we never see our self making any accomplishments along the way so we once again get discouraged with our progress and we quit.
If you were to add in some smaller achievable steps in-between the start point and the actual realization of your goal you would see your self making progress and soon as you marked off the steps accomplished you would find your self at the point of living what is no longer just a dream…it is reality.
Another reason for failure is that we never tell anyone about our goals and dreams or resolutions as we are calling them today. By nt telling anyone we can say to ourself, Oh well I can quit and nobody will ever know because I am the only one that knew in the first place. Hey way to go…you left yourself with a big fat easy out. Where is the accountability?
Ah nobody likes to be held accountable anyways… so forget that one. Well forget it only if you want to set yourself up for failure once again.
Maybe you have some thoughts on why we fail at keeping our resolutions.
Maybe you have some advice you can give as an expert New Year’s resolution achiever.
Maybe you can identify with one of the 3 characters above I described.
Will you make a resolution this year? If not why not?
Would love to hear your thoughts.
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Happy New Years 2009
Jeff Wellman
Paul Counts
Dixie Brown
Your 2009 Rapid Cash Marketing team
