Let’s Write a New Story
Why 2021 will be your year…or will it?
Welcome to 2021 my good friend, we made it!
Poor January. It has such a sad, predictable story. You know the age-old tale already. Everybody always looks forward to seeing January. Everybody looks forward to those shaky “resolutions” they say they’ll keep, that snatched body they’ll achieve, that person they want to date.
But this time, it will be much different. We inflict too much pressure on ourselves for January, and every year we believe things will work out this time or that “this will be my year!” But then, inevitably, January lets us down.
Or does it?
January doesn’t let us down. Within a few days or weeks, we abandon the goals and hopes we had set for a new healthy lifestyle. We revert to our old ways and habits, get caught up in daily life, and move on, leaving poor January in the scrap heap with the wrapping paper, pine needles, and face masks. Cringe.
But it doesn’t have to be that way: let’s write a new story for January! First, let’s not make January the hero because it never was. It’s just not fair to build one month into a big ordeal and give it so many expectations. In the story of a year, January is a mere ensemble player, not the star. So, take it with a grain of salt.
Second, give January an appropriate role. You can use it to set some new goals if you like. But what if you put all that “resolutions” nonsense aside and focused instead on living your best life on January 1? And then again on January 2? And the 3rd, and the 4th, and on and on… doing your best to enjoy a healthy lifestyle as best you can, one day at a time.
Before you know it, January will depart the stage as quickly as it did in 2020, and by the time February takes its place, you might be in the right frame of mind to continue with consistent behavior to support realistic expectations. So, give poor January a break after all these years…
Both you and her deserve it!
