We are nearly halfway through 2018. How are you doing with the goals you set in January?
Unfortunately, many of the resolutions made during the New Year are abandoned within just a few months. The gyms that were bursting at the seams in January are now nearly vacant. Fast food chains saw a dip in sales in mid-Winter, only to be back with a vengeance in early Spring. Why does this happen? Why do people continue to make resolutions only to drop them completely months or even days later?
Perhaps part of the problem lies in our microwave mentality that expects change to happen overnight or our desire to “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps” and meet our goals through our own strength.
We often see the goals we have as mountains we must traverse through sheer will-power and determination, but what if we have it all wrong?
What if practically keeping our goals is not like scaling a mountain, which requires large steps and allows us to see immediate progress?
What if reaching our goals is a much slower, deliberate process, requiring many small actions over time, like the slow accumulation of the tiny grains of sand that comprise a large sand dune? Continue Reading
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