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The Best New Year’s Resolution You Can Make All Year Round
For over 15 years now I had the same, singular, New Year’s resolution every year.
It was the only resolution I could fully commit to and the only one that would actually make me feel like I had something to achieve.
It gave me the freedom to live my life to the fullest while not chaining me to some arbitrary rules or numbers.
It allowed me to restart, to not aim for perfection, but to still try my hardest, and it rewarded every step in the right direction.
I think most New Year’s resolutions are too stingy.
They are too cold-cut, too binding and, honestly, too hard to achieve.
Many people fail before they even start in their resolutions because they make them too tough right off the start as they try to make up for lost time from the year before.
They give themselves very hard rules and set up a binding contract that they can barely achieve on their best day, much less on an average day.
“I will work out every day for 60 minutes, 365 days this year, before work and will follow a workout routine that I saw a bodybuilder do online. I have to complete the entire routine and be out of the gym by 7 a.m.”
