Did you feel that!?
It happened the exact moment when midnight struck and when 2023 became our newest year!
An overwhelming sense of motivation, drive and discipline overcame my mind’s hardwired bend towards complacency, excuse-making and self-doubt.
It was magical!
Wait.
You didn’t feel that?
Yeah, neither did I.
Cue the sad trombone…
The good news is you don’t need a “new year” as the reason to FINALLY start adding legitimate (not punishing) discipline to your life.
Whether it’s a new year or a random Tuesday in June, just simply commit to getting up a LITTLE bit earlier, eating just a LITTLE less sugar, drinking just a LITTLE more water, reading a good book and staying off the social media sewers just a LITTLE bit longer, exercising just a LITTLE bit more, writing in your journal just a LITTLE more often…
You get the point.
Please don’t think you have to radically modify your life just because “today’s the day, by golly.”
Although your heart and intentions are in the right place, that approach drastically reduces the odds of success and sets us up for failure. This way risks lulling us back into unfruitful behavior patterns and we end up telling ourselves *shrug* there’s always next year.
Meh, what the hay, in the spirit of the day, I’ll play along: Happy New Year and New You!
Good luck!
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Originally posted January 1, 2022