The post Christmas blues are upon us and it's a time for bettering ourselves and to fail miserably at our New Years resolutions. Across the globe people are signing up to gyms and trading in that refreshing beer for some horrible looking green glass of shit.
Not me.
I had an interesting conversation with a friend on the way back from partying ridiculously hard on NYE. She asked me what my New Years resolutions were and I more than obliged to tell her of my plans. I wanted to start yoga, meditation, read up on stocks, shares and business as well as focus intensely on my poker both on and off the virtual table. Not to mention my new love affair with eating healthy and avoiding all the sugary goodness life has to offer. After discussing my plans for a short while I turned to her and stated "But these aren't New Years resolutions, this is a brand new lifestyle"
Resolutions are made to be broken. Lifestyles are made for exactly that, life.
My changes were not made on a whim either. They had been thoroughly thought through in the months prior to January. It just so happens that January 3rd (I needed at least 2 days to properly recover) was a perfect time to start. After coming home from travelling it took me a good 2 months to even begin to start thinking of my future and even after that it was only 2 months until Christmas. All in all it was a recipe for slowing figuring out my plan, enjoying Christmas off (at home for the first time in years) and then settling down and really, truly working on the goals I have set myself for the coming year.
New Years Day. On my hour walk home from the city to my home, listening to my of my favourite albums of all time, The Smith Street Band - Throw me in the River, I got to reflect on everything that has happened prior. I reflected on friends, family, relationships, goals, dreams and, of course, the future. For the first time in my life I have a plan for what exactly I want to achieve. All I needed to do was set out a rough structure to how that would happen. So for the first time ever I have set goals, whether that be for the week, month or year. It could include playing poker, reading a book on business or something as simple as starting my day off with a 10 minute guided mediation. What the goals are is not overly important. What's more important is that I have a plan for how I want to spend my time and not be sat procrastinating. We are all guilty of sieving through facebook and endless pages of Reddit. That is not to say that there is no time for that in my new lifestyle, there certainly is. The only difference is that I make sure I have completed other daily tasks before aimlessly thinking of what the hell there is to do
So if there is one thing I would like you to take from this post is this. Whatever it is you would like to achieve in life, start making a plan for it. Right now. It may not happen, that's fine. But you might as well try and plan for the best.
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