Guess whatโ€™s happening this week? People are giving up on their New Yearโ€™s resolutions. Yep, thatโ€™s what the experts say! People make it to the second week of February, and then they toss that proverbial baby out with the bath water.

Iโ€™m really intrigued by that whole thought! Not that Iโ€™m above it, by any means. Trust me, I have my daily self-speak talks with myself where my lazy self-mocks my motivated self with โ€œoh cโ€™mon! Itโ€™s going to be A LOT easier to just go back to where we were! Cโ€™mon! Itโ€™s going to be easy! Letโ€™s do it! Let’s get on back THERE!โ€

Oh, my lazy self! Just staaaahhhhppp!

So, in my daily run yesterday, I was rockinโ€™ that run with my girl crush podcast Brene Brown. By the way, if youโ€™re not tuning into her for a bit of motivation, Iโ€™d shoot on over there and sign up for her fabulous messages. She just moved all her yumminess to Spotify and is rockinโ€™ her shows! Man! I am digesting every minute of what she has to share, and right now Iโ€™m listening to her interview with another guy who I just cannot get enough of: Simon Sinek! Wowza!

Yesterdayโ€™s message was about โ€œexcuses.โ€ Excuses. So, I tied that in with the breaking of New Yearโ€™s resolutions and I had a hard talk with myself. The thought of not being better… avoiding the pain to stay the same, of settling. Settling. Even the thought of that word disturbs my being.

Speaking of excuses. I have another fabulous man I follow in his podcastsโ€ฆ well, in anything he puts out there! If youโ€™re not following Erik Qualman, sign up for that one too! I remember in one of his podcasts he was talking about walking into his basketball coachโ€™s office for a discussion. Iโ€™m paraphrasing just a bit, but as the constructive discussion began his coach told #equalman he had a whole bowl full of excuses so donโ€™t bring those on. In fact, I thought about creating that visual for this postโ€ฆ a fishbowl full of small papers all with excuses written on them sitting next to an empty bowl labeled โ€œsolutions.โ€ When your mind is open, the solutions are endless!

Maybe you want to join me for a โ€œcheck up from the neck up.โ€ Analyzingโ€ฆ am I settling? Or letโ€™s say this differentlyโ€ฆ what do I need to stay the course? To continue to focus on the โ€œresultsโ€ by changing and being all I want to be, all I deserve to be? The excuses must go, and what I want the results to be need to stay front and center.

You ready to rock this role with me? Where are you at right now: New Yearโ€™s resolutions be gone? Excuses or focus on results? No shameโ€ฆ just curious!