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Honestly, this post is 7 days into the new year and I’m pretty sure either you’re going full-steam ahead with your brand-new gym membership, that Peleton bike your girlfriend swore up and down was the truth, and you went completely vegan or vegetarian at midnight sharp!
And I’m pretty sure you might be struggling and wondering what the hell. Maybe a few of you are committed to the cause but let’s keep it one hundred – the lot of you aren’t.
This post is for y’all.
New Year’s Resolutions are honestly…fucking dumb. Pardon my frank language but it’s the truth. You promise yourself (and maybe others) you’re going to do/change/commit to something for an entire 12 months and chances are, you’re going to forget about all of it by Valentine’s Day.
And of course, since your ‘New Year, New Me’ didn’t work, you vow to make new commitments for the next year. And the year after that. And the year after that.
You see where I’m going with this?
Waste. Of. Time.
So, what’s the solution? You want to change but twelve months is a long time to be committed to something you made the year before or the week of. Unless you are super committed to it, it’s going to be very difficult.
My suggestion? Quarterly goals.
There are four quarters in every year – Jan, February, March; April, May, June; July, August, September; October, November, December.
90 whole-ass days to get your shit together. (I promise the profanity stops here.)
Now, what I love about doing quarterly goals is that it’s a reasonable amount of time. I don’t have 12 months to make a difference and get lackadaisical on it. I have 90 days to kick booty and that’s it.
Now, of course, if you don’t make your goal in 90 days, you can always set it for the next quarter. But the idea is to push yourself so you don’t have to. You don’t want to keep setting the same goals every quarter don’t you? No, you want fresher goals every quarter.
You want to look back at your year and be amazed at everything you’ve accomplished. You don’t want to look back and wonder what happened, but vow to do better the next year…and the cycle repeats.
So, what are your goals for this quarter?
