How are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions?
Like me, you have probably already missed the second workout, ate the cheeseburger, went for the fourth cup of coffee or deposited $20 into the swear jar for the year – and it’s only Jan. 9.
New Year’s resolutions are pitfalls, if you ask me. The word “resolution” is fraught with the undercurrent of failure. Within the feeling of such resolve and the subsequent pressure to verbalize and even declare your resolution, there is this sense of being inflexible, rigid and unforgiving. It’s a set-up for failure for most people’s willpower.
When we make those kinds of resolutions and get tripped up, we find ourselves wracked with guilt, mired in self-judgment and unwilling or unable to try again because we fear failure.
Sound familiar?