New Year’s Resolutions. Or Not.

Whoo boy. We’re getting pretty close to the end of the year and I haven’t written anything in over a month. My bad.

And now that we’re looking down the barrel of 2023, we have yet another chance to make another New Year’s resolution.

Let me suggest something. Don’t.

Science says that New Year’s resolutions typically don’t last more than four weeks. If you’re an especially tough New Englander, maybe you can push that to six weeks. Then you stop going to the gym, you stop counting calories, or you drop off that online course.

Here’s a piece of information about that. You are not weak. You are human. Humans only have so much fuel to push through any given amount of space or time before that fuel gets depleted. So stop punishing yourself for something that biology dictated a billion years before you were born.

Instead of a New Year’s resolution, let’s try something different. Let’s try a theme for the year. A resolution requires a massive push through barriers of resistance. A theme only requires that you filter your normal life experiences through a desire.

Does your desire fit with that approach? Will this help you lose weight? Will this help you find a rewarding relationship? Will this help you make $1,000 a day? Will this make you happy?

If no, re-evaluate.

If yes, continue.

So let’s bump this up a notch. “No” means stop, re-evaluate, danger, or something else.

“Yes” means continue.

And then there’s “Hell yes!!”

Tim Ferriss says, “If it’s not a ‘Hell yes,’ it’s a ‘No.’

That would certainly make an interesting 2023, don’t you think?

Let me know with a comment below. I don’t care if it’s before or after we cross from 2022 to 2023. I’m open to all and any comments.

Peace, brothers and sisters.