What's stopping you?

Your worst enemy is yourself when it comes to holding back your dreams… I recently was confronted with this myself. Amid this Covid world that we are growing accustomed to, I found myself finding every excuse in the world not to push forward with a couple of my goals. Many of you know I have been working on MnD the podcast, and I was making progress but life happens. I lost a few people in my circle; I didn’t get the raise I was looking forward to and it seemed I was failing on every front.

In a moment of clarity, I was hit with an… let’s call it an epiphany. Every year we dub the 1st of January as the restart point for everything. Right now I am sure you are still working on that “New Year New Me” resolution that you promised yourself was going to happen. May I introduce a different mindset for 2022? Why do you only focus on a new way once a year? Why not quarterly, monthly, or even weekly? For the month of February here is my plan. I setting my goals for the month only. This allows me to set myself up for a win. People set out on these annual goals like, “This year I am going to eat better and drink less…” or, “I am going to go back to school and hit the gym more” and what happens? By the end of March, the gym is at least 70% clearer than it was the 1st week of January. So why not break these goals down into more obtainable measures? How about I am going to go to the gym at least once every week this month. Then we can see where we are at the end of the month. Like I said life happens; instead of checking back on our goals after 365 days, wouldn’t it be just a bit easier to pop back in after 30 days?

The current state of the world gives us so many reasons to put things off and not do it. That ends now. Myself included, I have already gotten started. I applied to that Ph.D. program I’ve been putting off. I've also signed up for three certification classes, and I have made it my business to focus on getting my podcast off the ground. We are all in this together and I am right there with you. So let’s change the mindset as the modern and distinguished people we are and make 2022 truly our year. Let me know what you think in the comments.

As always MnD