Don’t burn yourself out from the onset to make up for lost time. Slow and steady wins the race– in this case, being the preservation of one’s soul, body and mind through the process of vowing to resolve.
As the calendar turns over, you will find yourself hyper-focusing in on January – or the first quarter of the year, at the least — as the time to get most of your personal makeover
turnaround completed. But organizing the chaos that is your workload and cutting off excess pounds like a dropdown in bathing suit sizes depends upon it are goals that simply are not attained overnight.
Therefore, you should remember to give yourself a break, before you break. Total progress will be measured much later on– so what you can do when the clock you set begins ticking: focus on the journey, not the results. Do that and you will wind up closer to what your wildest fantasies envisioned.
Sure, you may not look like a character pulled straight from a Baywatch reboot when you and your caravan visit Smith Point Beach come summertime. But who would? If you put in your realistic best effort with steadfast precision, you will like who you see in the mirror enough to deem them worthy to show more skin than they would typically in Beach Volleyball.
More importantly, at the year’s midpoint you will feel like someone awakened to the reality that New Year’s resolutions are not just-in-time-for-summer resolutions. They are for the whole year. So, when the sun shines again, don’t forget the mental frame you were in when you first vowed to change your life for the better physically, mentally and spiritually.
If you’re prone to seasonal depression, make an effort to think of next fall and winter, not just the around-the-corner warmer months, when crafting your resolution plan. That way, you won’t be reverted back to absolute square one when December 2023 rolls around.
Lastly, nobody likes a showoff. In Shakespeare, the King doesn’t tell you who he is, his court does. Thus, the goal is to improve to such a degree that you won’t have to deliver the news on social media. People will tell you, in real life, because that’s what real friends do.
To our readers from all of us here at The Messenger Papers: Happy holidays and we’ll see you next year!
Stay positive. Stay focused. And stay humble.
