Sometimes I spend a year on any given goal. I focused on my diet, which helped me lose five pounds and two percent body fat. I didn't quite succeed - I only worked out 28 out of 31 days - but I came close.
Next, my goal became to make it to the gym every day in May. (April was a fun month! And it led to my current relationship with Kim.) I'd just been divorced, and my goal was to meet as many women as possible. In April, I embarked upon my Extreme Dating Project. This let me reconnect with people I'd been missing. In March, I had lunch or dinner with a different friend every day. Instead of one big goal for the year, I chose to work on one goal each month. In 2012, I tried something a little different. (Though not all Spanish-language novels.) I could carry on converstations in South America, and I could read Spanish-language novels. Within a year, I'd achieved reasonable fluency in the language. In my spare time, I watched Spanish movies and listend to Spanish music. Three times a week, I paid a Spanish tutor for ninety minutes of personal instruction. In 2011, my one goal was to learn Spanish. I set one goal, and I worked hard to meet it. I didn't have any other big goals clouding my view or competing for my attention. I was able to do this because for the entire year, my only goal was to get in shape. (And I lost the final ten by the middle of 2011.) Though I didn't lose fifty pounds that year, I did lose forty. Every decision I made, I made with that goal in mind. In fact, I dubbed 2010 “The Year of Fitness”. In 2010, for instance, I focused on fitness. Instead of trying to change many things at once, I've learned to change only one thing at a time. Nowadays, I do something different, something that's actually proven to be successful. (And, I think, because we try to set goals that aren't truly aligned with our primary purpose in life.) It's because most of us try to do too much. #Focus on one thing tv#
There's a reason you see newspaper and TV stories every spring about how most people aren't able to maintain the resolutions they set at the first of the year.
But now, ten years later, I see that I have completed nearly all of the ones that still matter.)Įventually I realized that making a long lists of resolutions is a sure path to disappointment - at least for me. In fact, I still haven't done everything on it because my priorities have changed. (It took me longer than three years to finish that list, by the way. In 2007, for instance, I made a list of 101 things I wanted to accomplish in 1001 days. At least once a year - usually around New Year - I'd sit down and make a list of all the things that were wrong with me, all of the things I wanted to change. I used to be the sort of guy who loved to have a list of goals.
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