So you set your goals 3 months ago.
It was a new year full of new possibilities.
You believed hard that this was going to be the year.
This was going to be the year that you would loose the weight. The year you would get your finances in order.
The year you would make more connections with the people you love.
And here you are, already a quarter of the year has come and gone. The weight still there, the finances still in a bit of disorder and your starting to feel like your farther away from connection than you were at the start of the year. You don’t understand what happened. Time has already flown by and you have little progress. You ask yourself "What happened?"
So often we start the year out with so many ideas and hopes and dreams. We set goals but then we don’t do the most important part. We don’t make a solid plan for the execution of the goal. We don’t prepare ahead of time for when we will have obstacles or how we can over come our own objects. And lastly we aren’t willing believe it will happen even when we don’t have immediate results.
We aren’t prepared to overcome the temptation of eating that cake at the party, spending money on take out because we’re just to worn out to cook or deciding to only spending 1 hour on that project so that we have the rest of the night to connect with family. We also give up because we have been trying so hard for 3 or 4 weeks and we don’t see any progress.
But here’s the good news.
It’s not too late.
It’s not too late to go all in on that goal. We can still choose to believe that it is possible this year. And here is how you can make it happen.
Plan and make decisions ahead of time. Decide now what you will do when you go to that party.
Decide now what you will make for dinner on those nights you want to grab take out.
Decide now how much time you want to commit to connecting with people and what you will do when something else needs your attention during that time.
Decide now that you are willing to keep believing hard and doing the work even when you don’t yet see evidence of progress.
If you decide now what you will do then, you’ll be ready in the moment when your faced with opposition. Most importantly you must honor that decision. If you made plans to have tend the garden with Joanna Gains, you wouldn’t cancel. Give yourself the same respect and commitment.
Many people start scratching off their dreams instead of scratching off their excuses. But not you. No, you recommit.
So yea, you may be three months in and not made any progress with your goal.
But the year is not over yet.
You can still rock it.
Let’s do this.
Love you madly.
Leslie
P.S. Not sure what obstacles you may face or how to honor your decisions let chat. I can help you. Email me at leslie.canup@gmail.com
