Don't Play Yourself in 2019.

Greetings Ladies and Gents,

Well it feels like we were just figuring out how to handle our respective 2018s. Yet here we are, a day or so from 2019. Were you all able to knock out all of your goals this past year? Yea, me neither. But I hope at least most of them were accomplished. What matters is progress and that's how we'll wrap up things in today's message.

Listen, one of the main reasons people find themselves falling off from their New Years goals is because they create impossible tasks. It's all well and good that you want to become a millionaire or become the next President of the United States. I support it. However, to place that entire plan into 365 days is well...asking a lot.

It's great to think big picture, but you don't go from a recipe to magically having a wonderful mac and cheese in front of you. There's steps to greatness, and one must put the necessary amount of energy into each of those. So if your 2019 goal is to get back in shape, don't play yourself by going from 0 days a week working out to 5. That's a disaster before it even takes place. It can become easy to overwhelm yourself and want to quit altogether. Instead, try 1-2 times a week until that becomes the norm for you...then build up from there.

I can say for myself with working out that it was a process. I'd do it on and off when I first started taking exercise seriously. But once I got into a consistent groove of 3 or so times a week, I'd feel guilty if I missed a day. And once you're to that point, you know it has become embedded in your makeup to get done.

Same goes with the goal of "better eating" or whatever you'd like to classify it as for yourself. If you're out here eating fries and wings 5 days a week, don't expect that urge to disappear overnight. If it were that easy, you would have got your food life together years ago. You gradually get yourself off certain meals and onto ones better suited for your personal diet goals. Easing in better foods throughout the days of the week will make it the new norm for you, and the results will speak for themselves.

Drake might have made 0-100 seem like a realistic feat, and it may in fact be possible for you. But the "real quick" part of that line...not so much. Greatness takes time, patience, dedication and being real with yourself. You have to be your biggest fan when it comes to what you're trying to achieve. So when you get in your own head, make sure it's with doable goals that build up to one big accomplishment rather than putting the impossible on your plate. Be good to yourself in 2019!