Escaping New Year Resolutions and other stories

Although I ditched the idea of New Year Resolutions in my early 20s and joked that my New Year’s Resolution was not to have New Year’s Resolutions, it was only recently a smidge of smugness set in. I still goal-set up the wazoo. In fact, I do celebratory recaps and yearly goal-setting with friends; I even designed a lil low-effort program for it. If I wasn’t intentional my life would be chaos without direction i.e. more stress, less fun. It dawned on me just ten years later that my rejection of New Year Resolutions was the first step towards developing a healthier relationship with failure. New Year Resolutions elevate the importance of the streak over the goal. The quality of momentum is reduced and the reasons for the goal are diminished. There’s no fallback mechanism for when the streak breaks. Breaking the streak feels even worse because this was the new start. It was special. Even if it was just as special as all the other new starts. 💀 I schedule 100-Day Challenges on Jan 1st,…