New Week's Resolution

By this time of the year, people are often losing some or all of their enthusiasm for their New Year's resolutions. And that might be because the whole concept really sets you up for failure. A singular commitment for an entire year? What could possibly go wrong?

In building any skill, habit, or commitment, there is bound to be failure, and that is when we often fall apart. We don't like to think about failure, and most of us (myself included) don't handle it very well. I've seen a clear example of this in our weekly creator group. As we keep count of the weekly streak of video creation, there's a great deal of enthusiasm as the streak is extended, and a gut-wrenching sense of failure when it's inevitably broken.

What do you do when you fail?

Too often the answer is to lose faith in the pursuit entirely. The New Year's resolution doesn't particularly account for failure, given its once-a-year context. But for life's goals, perhaps a more regular re-commitment is needed. Within the weekly resolution is something important built-in, a weekly renewal. If I fail this week, I start again next week. That is a recipe for success.

Any journey we commit to will have its falls, its failures. The successful among us are not those who never fail, but rather those who are best able to navigate those failures, to learn from them and carry on. Expect, embrace, and learn from failure, but most importantly, prepare to start again.

Best of luck on your new week's resolution,

Naser