Stop Preventing The Negative Experiences

It’s New Year’s Eve.

You take a look back at the last year and realize that a lot of the things you planned to do this year did not happen the way you thought they would.

Regret starts to boil up inside you, which you quickly push away with the thought: “It’s fine. Last year I was not as committed as this year. This year will be different!”

And with that newfound justification you make a bigger, better Resolution for the year to come.

The first few weeks go by smoothly. You hold true to your Resolution, not missing a beat, and it feels great as you make substantial progress.

However, after about six weeks the rate at which you progress begins to dwindle. It gets harder to get the same achievements, the work becomes more dull as the excitement of the newness fades, and your friends and family do not give you the same, enticed, looks they used to when you talk about your Resolution.

It’s in the seventh week that you miss your first day, which you reason away by saying you had other, more important things to attend to. And while that is not untrue, you know that that reason alone is not the everything. You could have still done it if you truly wanted to.