Be an action verb.

Happy New Year Badass, 

The start of a new year is when everything feels fresh and exciting. Your motivation is at a peak, and you’re ready to get sh*t done this year.

You probably remember this feeling from years past, the pressure and opportunities of the new year glowing ahead. 

So, why are you still making the same resolution year after year?

More pointedly, why are you not seeing the change you want?

I’m not asking this to bestow pessimism on you but instead to guide the discovery of the root of the problem so you can fix it, implement new strategies, and make the change you want. 

Cohort members always ask me how to create New Year’s Resolutions that stick. Here’s a list of resolutions I give them:

Don’t Make New Year’s Resolutions.

You don’t need resolutions. You need a mission you can believe in and a strategy to make it happen. 

We all want to win in business, life, and self. To be healthy, fit, connected to our loved ones, doing the work we love, and getting paid well while doing it.  

If wishing these thoughts were all it took, we’d all be basking in the good life with time and money to spare.

And very few of us are.

It’s because simply resolving to be a better version of yourself isn’t enough. 

You need to harness that vision and feeling, then reverse engineer the strategy to get there.

You need to commit to doing the work (consistently and strategically) that will get you to accomplish goals. 

We all want to master business, life, and self, but few of us do. 

Why? Because we make resolutions—we claim we want success in these areas. But we don’t want to put in the work. So we dream about it without action to implement. 

Soon, between the whirlwind of work and life’s stressors, our dreams fade, we put off our intentions, another year goes by, and at the end of the year, we proclaim: “Next year will be our year!” 

My advice to you is this: Be an action verb.

Put your thoughts into action and see how far you can go. 

I’m rooting for you.