Goodbye 2025! What a year it’s been. With Trump in office, every day was something new. Since I’ve been alive, there have been eight different presidents in the White House, and none have ever popped up in the news as much as our current president. If you combined how much people knew about every other president over the past 40 years, it wouldn’t equal what the media has thrust upon us about our current president over the span of his 5-year rule…so far.
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This upcoming year, I resolve to put more effort into being “in the present moment.”
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Japan has a reputation for being a futuristic wonderland. Bullet trains. Robots on asteroids. Toilets that sing, spray, and warm your backside to the perfect temperature.
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I get it. We’re all busy, and tired, and burnt out – from work, from family, from life. So we end up doing nothing at home except doom scrolling social media, or binge watching the latest show for four hours. Then we sit around depressed that we have no life, no friends, no goals. Welcome to adulthood.
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I love New Year’s resolutions. I also realize I’m one of the few that actually do. I’m also in a very unique position that allows me to understand why people fail at their resolutions, and how you can avoid those 3 common mistakes:
- Setting up for failure with unrealistic expectations. This is probably the biggest mistake I see that people make over and over again. Whether it’s losing 50lbs, or making a million dollars, people love to make the most grandiose claims, only to immediately give up once they realize they’ve set impossible goals. Impossible goals require improbable effort. Stop setting yourself up to fail and learn to set more realistic goals.
- Making broad declarations without a game plan. I hear this all the time as well. When asked what they want to accomplish, people will just say stuff like “I want to be healthier” or “I want more make more money.” Ask a simple follow up question “How will you do that?” and it’s dead silence followed by a blank stare. I call this the brick wall of resolutions because that’s exactly what happens when people realize they have no clue how to achieve their goal – they simply stare at the wall, give a shrug, give up and walk away. Although it might win you the presidency, having “concepts of a plan” probably won’t be very useful otherwise.
- Going full speed ahead…and flaming out almost immediately. As much as this happens, I applaud people who actually get to this step – at least they tried. However, this is also a very common mistake most beginners make. I use the word beginners deliberately because that’s what we are when we begin our journey – new learners. Instead of taking it slow and learning how to adjust appropriately, people give it their all, burnout right away, then call it quits. It’s the person who goes to the gym for two weeks straight starting in January, then never sets foot in one again afterwards. As the wise turtle says “slow and steady wins the race.”
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