We all made some sort of New Year’s goal. We have tried to challenge ourselves to becoming a better version of ourselves. We looked at the coming year of 2018 and thought “New Year, New me.” But, how are those goals going?
We are about a month and a half into the new year. No doubt many of us have already abandoned our New Year’s goals. There may be a few of us who are still holding on. We may have slipped up from time-to-time, but just because its mid-February doesn’t mean it’s too late.
It’s time to assess our goals and figure out where we are heading.
For the few of us who are still actively pursuing and doing our 2018 goals, great job! You should be proud! But, there is still room for assessment. Did you make your challenge too easy? Are there ways you can tweak and amp up your goal? We should know that there is always room for improvement.
Or maybe, you are rocking your challenge and feel like you’ve really mastered it. That’s awesome, but did you know New Years isn’t the only time you can make new goals? We are always working on ourselves and finding new ways to challenge ourselves, so take this opportunity to create a new goal for yourself. Maybe it adds to your previous goal, or maybe its something entirely different you’d like to work on.
But, for those of us who have already given up on our goal, or perhaps even forgotten what it was, don’t give up! There is still time to accomplish your goals for 2018. Don’t lose hope. It’s just time to approach your goal from a different angle.
Let’s say you had some major goal of exercising an hour a day. But, you’ve found it difficult to carve that hour out of your time. Maybe you did for a few days or weeks, but as you slowly got busier it seemed to slip through the cracks. That’s okay! We will all face the low points of our goals where not much progress is being made, but we can still pick it back up.
Turn your goal into something that seems a little more tangible. Lessen your goal of workout time. Make it 30 or 15 minutes a day and go from there. After you’ve mastered the smaller amount, you can build up from there. If you created a huge goal for yourself and can’t seem to manage it quite yet, tweak it to fit your specific needs.
It is perfectly fine to change your goals if necessary. At the beginning of the year we were all hopped up on the spirit of a New Year, and that caused us to set unrealistic standards of what we could accomplish at a time. If we are struggling with our goals, we need to be aware of whether we are asking too much of ourselves and then work from there. You must be kind to yourself and conscious of your capabilities.
Just because you change your goal a little bit doesn’t mean you’ve given up. It only means that you’ve decided to work on your goal a little differently then you originally thought. Break it up and conquer one step at a time. It will make reaching your goal much easier and you’ll enjoy yourself more as you go along.
Just because it’s mid-February does not mean it is too late to reach your 2018 goals and have a wonderful year. Keep persevering and never give up! It’s never too late to reach for a goal.
