When I was younger, I was required to write New Year’s resolutions for class, but I would never keep them. I never really felt like I had to. Every year, I made similar goals, but I never achieved them.
My list usually looked like this: 1) Finish homework before watching Netflix. 2) Do not procrastinate writing papers. 3) Go for a run. 4) Eat healthy. And so on…
It became easier to come up with excuses than to keep the resolutions. I would tell myself, “It’s too cold to run,” or, “I’ll just try again tomorrow.” The grocery list came before the homework assignments, and suddenly I was back to procrastinating.
My pastor once said that if we make New Year’s resolutions, we need to be very determined to keep them. Making a resolution is not something to be taken lightly. But each year I would make resolutions that just didn’t stick. So what was my solution? I stopped making New Year’s resolutions.
Instead, I have decided to make daily resolutions. I have found that it is easier to aim for small goals each day rather than feel overwhelmed by a list that I made on the first day of January. I feel more accomplished checking a few things off each day. Daily goals that are achievable make me more accountable than a long list that fades into a distant memory as the year goes on.