I can’t believe how fast time is flying by these days. Managing multiple banks, starting a health and nutrition business, and our three toddler household makes finding a dull moment difficult.
In years past, I felt that setting a New Year’s Resolution was a setting yourself up for failure. I think I felt that way because the only resolution that made sense for me to make was to lose weight. I was severely overweight and any other resolution would have been a waste of time and energy.
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My weight was the only aspect that should have received my focus and I knew that I wasn’t going to do it, so I didn’t set a resolution.
However, looking back, now that I have lost a significant amount of weight, why didn’t I put something out there to get started? Was I afraid of failure? Was I afraid of success?
I posted on my Facebook page about making a “New Year’s Solution” vs. a “New Year’s Resolution.” When I posted this quick thought, it was mostly about planning a long term
solution to a long term problem. I felt that a resolution was an opportunity to say, “Yeah, losing some weight would be nice,” or “I wouldn’t mind saving more money or getting out of debt this year, that is my resolution.”
In fact, when you are ready to beat a disease like obesity or a habit like overspending, utilizing too many credit cards, or not having a plan to save for college or retirement expenses, it requires extreme discipline and courage to get up and take care of business. I had the opportunity to meet Brad Chaffee for a very brief time at the Financial Bloggers Conference I attended this fall. Brad and his wife laid out a plan to beat credit card debt and now he is taking that extreme focus and applying it to his healthy lifestyle. He put together a solution and you can read more about his step-by-step approach at Enemy of Fat. Brad has designed his plan to be a solution to a lifelong problem and he has plans to succeed.
When I decided to lose weight, it wasn’t a resolution, it was a mission. What is your mission? Are you going to save more money this year? Are you going to start a new career? Are you going to run a marathon? What is your game plan? What is your step-by-step action plan to succeed?
Don’t set your resolution up for failure because you didn’t take the time to plan a solution. Together we can achieve greatness!
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