Happiness in Three Weeks
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ~ Lao Tzu
So it’s the third week of January and for most of us our New Year Resolutions have already failed. For those of us who are regulars at the gym you can really see the pattern. Around Christmas to New Years Day the gym begins to get really crowded, the workers are frequently giving tours and you inevitably can’t get on your favorite machine because someone is sitting there trying to figure out how it works. About this time of year, the crowd that had been thinning day by day since the first, has now pretty much disappeared.
I wrote my New Year post this year on looking at things a little differently for your resolution and hopefully that worked for you. If not, if you went the old usual way and got the old usual results, let me give you a little forgiveness and another chance. Yeah, I know, I’ve got no real authority but it’s a way for you to give yourself a break.
So, let tomorrow be a do over Monday, start with a new set of resolutions. I’ll go back to my post’s recommendation, do something you’re passionate about and want to do, instead of what you “should” do. Either way here is some advice.
- Pick easy and measurable goals, something you can do quickly and easily each day.
- Reward yourself for success, put a dollar aside for each time you do what you’re supposed to, do buy some ice cream with the cash.
- Tell someone about the goal, keep them updated.
- Forgive yourself if you miss a day and go right back at it the next day.
Hopefully these tips will keep you going and help you achieve whatever change you were hoping to make by doing this and as always, have a happy day my friends. ~ Rev Kane
The Ministry of Happiness 