What up though! I hope everyone is doing well, and that the unluckiest year of our lives hasn’t begun to wear on you too much yet. The superstitious side of me is seriously predicting an unlucky year. Considering that the year is 2013 and that 13 is THE most damned number in history, I’m going to predict that we will see an increase in the births of black cats, an increase of cuts on fingers from broken mirrors, and a decrease in the amount of wood for us to knock on. All things considering, I’m determined to make it a year to remember. And though it seems highly improbable, you can control the outcome of your year as well.
Every year, millions of Americans make what we call New Year’s Resolutions in which we attempt to make some type of change in our life that we think will make us a better person. Some of us want to quit being so lazy or learn a new word every day or give up chocolate… Wait, never mind. That’s stupid. Don’t give up chocolate. Give up Mcdonald’s or something. Not chocolate. Anyways, what happens to about 97.43% of these Resolutions, according to my thorough research, is that they get discarded fairly early into the New Year to only be forgotten until the next year rolls around. I could preach about all the things that we can to disallow this process and to not allow ourselves to get distracted from our goals, but I feel like that is essentially a waste of our time. In my life’s experiences, I’ve found that the vast majority of the time we make goals that we fall short of or discontinue the pursuit of. It isn’t because of our laziness or lacks of desire, but instead our human nature that doesn’t always allow us to complete our tasks. Don’t get me wrong, there are probably a few exceptionally gifted people who are reading this right now and thinking, “This is stupid. Whatever I put my mind to accomplish, I do”. And if you are thinking that then this isn’t for you. There are millions of people who struggle with successfully achieving all of their challenging goals. And to them I’d like to say, it’s ok to fall short. Yes, I said it. There is nothing wrong with falling short of a goal as long as we get back on the grind ASAP. We all have days in which we struggle to get accomplished what we want to get done because of emotions or because of other thing going on in our lives. But if we allow these complications and obstacles to continue to hinder our progress to our goals then we just become one of the typical people who lose focus on our aspirations. Typical and average people don’t do exceptional things. So by failing at trying to accomplish a daunting task, there should be no shame. Instead we should invite that failure because we learn best from failure and not from our successes. H. Stanley Judd, famous American author, said, “Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s ok to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.” So basically all I’m saying is this: set tough goals, do your best to achieve them, and when you fail, learn your lesson and get back on the grind ASAP.
I hope that I helped some people out and that when you fail at sticking to your Resolutions (WHICH WILL HAPPEN!) you refer back to what I had to say. Anyways, I’ll be back tomorrow with Throwback Thursday, even though I don’t know what I want to talk about yet. Comment and suggest to me some ideas RIGHT HERE. Go follow us on Twitter HERE, ‘Like’ us on Facebook HERE, check THIS out, and the YouTube account is coming soon, I promise. But uhhh, yeah. That’s all for now. Deuces Brodies!
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