By New Year Resolutions realized!!!
Good Morning MOJO,
Do you know the definition of insanity? Doing the same activity over and over again, but expecting a different outcome.
As we start another new year, I know we all have these exciting, life changing, sexy goals for 2009. Unfortunately, as I have mentioned before, for most of us they are the same goals we had last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, and… Today is only the 5th day of the New Year and I know many of us have already given up on some of those New Years resolutions/goals to have a better life, which we just committed to Friday of last week. It all sounded great and exciting on New Years Eve, but then we had to wake up on January 1st and implement that incredibly nasty, terrifying, and ugly 6 letter word…we had to “change”. So what happens to most of us and the reason we continue to have the same goals/resolutions year after year, is we want things to change in our life, but we are not willing or are unable to change or behavior. For some amazing reason, so many of us actually think we are going to finally get what we want while continuing to do what we have always done. Think about it…is that insane or what?!?!?!
Here is an idea on how to change our habits, which will change our outcome, which will change our life. Have you ever run in a marathon? About 5 years ago I was training to do the San Diego Marathon when I had some foot issues on a 13 mile run building up to it, so I had to stop training. However, when I was getting prepared for the marathon, I was doing it with Team in Training, like I am sure many of you have in the past. You know what? They don’t start you out with running 26.5 miles on the first day. They start small…very small. I can’t remember exactly what it was, but for many it was something like walking 1 to 3 miles a few times a week. And after many months of training and adding a little bit every week, those same people who could only walk a few miles where able to run a 26.5 mile marathon.
The key is to start small, with something that pushes you, but does not crush you. The other key is don’t try and do it by yourself. The reason Team in Training is so successful at getting people to run marathons and doing triathlons is they get people to start small, building confidence along the way…and they understand people are pack animals. So they get thousands of people to do it together.
So, if you are like me and have some exciting, life changing, sexy goals for 2009, lets commit to start small with something we know we can stick with and build up to it…and lets do it together. Start small and find some friends, family, and/or associates we can share our goals with and do it together. With some small consistent steps that we build on a little at time, we will be amazed at how fast we will accomplish our goals. Just think how fast 2008 went by. It seems like just yesterday it was January 2008. Imagine if we had taken these small steps a year ago where we would be today.
Happy New Year!!!!!
