How to make your New Year’s resolutions count

You need to get a sense of urgency

Every year you make resolutions with the hope of achieving them. Somehow you never quite manage to keep up your promises, it seems almost pointless to wish for something. That might be due to the fact that unconsciously or consciously you believe that you still have a lot of time. That is not true, every single day matters.

The illusion of time

A flash of regret

You are old. You are finally starting to feel it, even though you have the leisure of retirement, and the love of the grandkids, something is missing.

You are forgetting things, you get lost in places you used to navigate with ease. Days pass, but you don’t feel it, tracking time seems harder and harder. You know you have early signs of Dementia, but you haven’t accepted it yet. The retirement you were expecting has left a sore taste in your mouth, you wanted relaxation but not boredom. You want your old self back, the one that could challenge the world itself.

You never wanted to get here, but time is cruel, and it didn’t show any mercy while you were getting old.

Being hopeless has become your way of dealing with reality. You don’t see any solution or hope on the horizon. Nonetheless, if there was a solution, you don’t have any energy that would help you towards pursuing it.

You are tired all the time because you can barely sleep. You are either eating too much or not eating at all. You’ve also developed depression, and you don’t know how to handle it. Maybe the life seniors have is just filled with all these things, and your current condition is not to be changed but to be accepted.

There might be a moment when there could be nothing but regret in your life. Where all the times you postpone the things you wanted to do, come back to hunt you.

Don’t wait until you get there to do something.

Even though you can still fight for your dreams, it’s much harder and to have results takes a lot more.

A pathetic attempt to write

At the beginning of 2021, I wanted to create a blog and start writing.

I bought a domain months before 2021, did all the editing of the website, and planned what I wanted to do. I wrote 1 article in the first month of 2021.

You would expect, that afterward I continued to write, but I didn’t. That article was the single article that the blog had, for months.

To say the least, I felt pathetic. I was continuously asking myself, how could I have only written that much? I am that lazy?

It wasn’t that I was only lazy, the subject I have chosen didn’t fit any of my real interests. I thought about writing on digital marketing, but I didn’t have any expertise to speak of. It wasn’t something I wanted to write about, it was dull, dried, and boring for me.

I kept lying to myself that I have time, and I will figure something out. I will write more.

I didn’t. I didn’t write any other article until my domain had been taken away from me because I only paid to own it for 1 year.

When I lost my domain, I realized that I could do better. Time passes, and if I won’t do anything my dreams will simply die with me.

I now have 24 articles published on Medium, and many drafts that wait to be finished. My articles are not perfect, but I don’t expect them to be. I will stumble one article at a time, towards the betterment of my writing.

I also managed to land my first freelance client on Upwork. I write articles on psychology and the pay is much better than I expected. It is not something I could have imagined when I couldn’t even write 2 articles for my blog.

I didn’t do anything for my blog because I wasn’t true to myself. I wanted to have perfect writing but without doing any work. I lied to myself every day, that today will be the day when I will burst out with several articles, that day never came.

It wasn’t until I decided that no matter how bad my attempts to do something are, I will do it anyway, that I had success.

The will to act

No matter how many hacks you read online about making your New Year’s resolution count, it won’t matter if you don’t act on your goals.

People act like there will be always a tomorrow, but every day is a gift you have. You will get old, and you will approach your last moments, every second flows towards that.

Life is shorter than it seems, and every minute counts and should be respected.

You need to remember about your own mortality, and that you won’t get a second chance. People may lead you to believe in things like reincarnation and other similar concepts, but only this life is a certainty. Anything else is just a belief people have.

You don’t have to act perfectly, to flawlessly walk towards your goals. It will be messy, filled with obstacles and problems you didn’t even have the capacity to conceive. But, it doesn’t matter, as long as you act you have a chance towards obtaining what you want.

When you act, you have something to improve upon. You do it consistently, and you add 1% extra effort every time, and you will see exponential results with time.

Even the craziest of goals can be obtained if sliced into small enough objectives to be pursued.

Get wild with your dreams for this new year, but also get wild with your efforts towards achieving them.

What is one goal you have for 2022?

Let me know in the comments

I want to start a youtube channel