Reconsider your New Year’s Resolutions

Here’s a friendly reminder to reconsider your New Year’s Resolutions.

We’re almost halfway through the first month of 2025, and I’m willing to bet many of us have already had a setback or two for our resolutions. Many of us probably even forgot about at least one of them.

But it’s OKAY. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “it’s not the destination, it’s the journey” that’s most important. Whether it’s to learn a new skill, get that promotion or raise, find a new role, unlearn a bad habit, etc. — what’s most important is the WHOLE PATH you take to get there, not that one bump here or there.

Over the hundreds of people I’ve worked with and helped, in and out of my career, it’s focusing on the individual bumps that causes us to fall off and miss our goals. Chances are, you might even have worded your goals in a way that sets you up for failure (genuine failure, the kind you don’t learn something from).

If your goal is something to the effect of “do X thing every day,” you will fail.
If your goal is something like “lose X pounds,” you will fail.
If your goal is feels anything close to “cut out X from my life,” you will fail.

“But wait, Krys, aren’t those legitimate goals?”

No, they aren’t, because they miss one crucial factor: the WHY.

Why do you want to do X thing every day?
Why is it so important for you to lose X pounds?
Why does it cost you to continue to let X stay in your life?

A goal without a why is just a statement, and a statement does nothing more or less than exist.

Do you want to live a different reality in your future? Or do you want to just exist in your current reality indefinitely?