New Year, Different Perspective

We’re already two weeks into the new year. I don’t know about you, but I can still feel the pressure of needing to have set myself unrealistic goals for the new year and it’s difficult not to give into that pressure, but I am not going to do it. January is a hard enough month without setting yourself up for failure by setting goals that fit the idea of who you want to be rather than who you are, or potentially even other people’s ideas of who they want you to be.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of one time when I created a new year’s resolution that I was actually able to stick to that made me feel good about myself. So I don’t participate in new year’s resolutions anymore. I do set myself loose intentions that are specifically to do with where I’m at and how I want to feel. Two people that have helped me with this are Sophie Cliff, otherwise known as The JoyfulCoach, and Selina Barker at ProjectYou with the Goodbye Hello journals. They’ve helped me focus on what makes me happy and what I want to achieve, and achievements don’t have to be big,tangible things. They can be as simple as being a better friend to yourself (although that can sometimes be difficult after years of negative self-talk.)

I think what I’m hoping to say is that the new year instead of being a time of setting goals that are going to make us feel like we are automatically not doing things right, it could be an opportunity to find what we enjoy about life and ourselves and focus on that.

Not sponsored, I just really found these people helpful.