Happy 2023 friends. I hope that your holiday break was joyful and restorative. As for me, there’s always a Venn diagram between anticipation, general holiday anxiety, waiting for the holidays to be over and a sliver of actual enjoyment.
I digress.
I am, as I’m sure many of you are, thinking about goal setting for 2023. Here’s the thing though: resolutions and goal setting rarely work.
This is why gyms are full in January and February and cleared out by March.
This is why you (collectively, not singularly) are not ten pounds lighter, ten times richer or fluent in Chinese/Klingon/Esperanto already.
In short, humans are pretty bad at following through on goals. And then January comes around, we have the best of intentions and go about our lives only to revisit them a year later to find that we probably haven’t achieved what we set out to. Myself very much included.
So, this year, I’m trying to set a theme instead of a goal and to set habits instead of resolutions.
This year’s theme: ease.
What if it were easy instead of hard? What if I could flow instead of grind?
What would it be like to “be like water” according to Master Bruce Lee?
Some habits I’m going to try for 2023:
- Strive to drink eight glasses of water per day.
- Continue to meditate every morning for at least 15 minutes.
- Laugh every day.
- Call my parents at least 3x a week.
- Say no to things that don’t light me up.
What are some of your themes for the year?
