New Year, New You…or Something

January usually not only signals a new year, but also, most often, a time to reset. If you’re like me, you enter the new year hyped up with everything you want to do or change. I don’t make resolutions, but I do set some goals, like eating better and working out more consistently, keeping my meditation a priority and being more organized with my writing. I hop right in with meal prep, exercise challenges and setting up my brand new planner…including stickers. Somewhere around March, meal prep turns into scrounging through the fridge an hour before dinner, and it seems simpler to grab something to eat on the fly. I stand in the refrigerator demanding that something healthy and easy appears (still waiting on that to happen). When it comes to exercising, I tell myself, I got in one or two days of working out this week, so that’s a win, right? And the beloved planner with all the fancy sticker sheets…where the heck is that thing? Hmm…downstairs in my “office” space…or buried beneath the pile of writing folders, papers and whatnot…? Anyway, I digress. It can be pretty discouraging to fall off the wagon so soon, but I’m finally learning that it’s not always how you start, but how you finish. There are twelve months in the year meaning I have plenty of time to begin again. And so do you. If you get off track, hit that reset button, and start again. You may have to change or modify your goals, but that doesn’t matter. You’ve got this. Finish strong