Guess whatโs happening this week? People are giving up on their New Yearโs resolutions. Yep, thatโs 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.
Iโm really intrigued by that whole thought! Not that Iโm 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 โoh cโmon! Itโs going to be A LOT easier to just go back to where we were! Cโmon! Itโs going to be easy! Letโs 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 youโre not tuning into her for a bit of motivation, Iโd 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 Iโm listening to her interview with another guy who I just cannot get enough of: Simon Sinek! Wowza!
Yesterdayโs message was about โexcuses.โ Excuses. So, I tied that in with the breaking of New Yearโs 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 podcastsโฆ well, in anything he puts out there! If youโre 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 coachโs office for a discussion. Iโm paraphrasing just a bit, but as the constructive discussion began his coach told #equalman he had a whole bowl full of excuses so donโt bring those on. In fact, I thought about creating that visual for this postโฆ a fishbowl full of small papers all with excuses written on them sitting next to an empty bowl labeled โsolutions.โ When your mind is open, the solutions are endless!
Maybe you want to join me for a โcheck up from the neck up.โ Analyzingโฆ am I settling? Or letโs say this differentlyโฆ what do I need to stay the course? To continue to focus on the โresultsโ 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 Yearโs resolutions be gone? Excuses or focus on results? No shameโฆ just curious!
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