Every year when it gets close to January you try to set up a list of things you’ll do to make this year different. Let’s call them “New Year’s Resolutions.” You plan to stop eating sugar, start working out 4 times a week, drink more water, become more productive, finish a project, etc. In short you believe that the start of the new year is the cure to change your current habits.
Well I really hate to break it to you but you’re wrong. I know this from personal experience. It might be a new year but it’s still the same you. You are an accumulation of your habits. The person you will be or not be is dependent on what habits you stick to.
That being said you don’t need the start of a new year to change the things you wish were different about yourself. That’s why I think New Year’s Resolutions are crap. They give you the self-limiting idea that you need to wait until a certain time of the year to work on changing yourself.
When you inevitably give up on your resolutions the second or third week of the year, you feel like a failure and now have permission to go back to being your old self.
So you’ll do it tomorrow.
Or maybe the start of the week, you’ll do it on Monday.
But not this Monday because you had a rough day at work.
So now it’s Tuesday morning, but it’s early and you’re tired plus it’s too cold outside.
You can just do it the first of next month.
Or you can wait until next year.
You get my point? Your mind will give you a million excuses as to why you can’t do the things you tell yourself you want to do.
So there’s no need to wait until Monday or tomorrow. And definitely no need to wait until next year. You can start changing your habits and adding in new things to your routine every. single. day. It’s a practice filled with a lot of failure, but that’s okay something tells me you’re up for the challenge.
You can pick any day and time to do the things you want to do. But the thing is you need to make time and DO IT.
So get out there and try something new! You never know how different you could be by next year if you started the thing right now.