It's 2021, and that means that many of us have created new years resolutions. Whether it's eating healthy, working out more, cussing less, reading your Bible, or just keeping your room clean, I'm sure we all have some type of goal for this year. The new year feels like a clean slate to begin working for something.
What I've recently realized is that the difficulty in keeping resolutions lies in the want to complete them perfectly.
If you're like me you want to begin your resolution on January 1st and challenge yourself to go hard for, well, hopefully, the rest of the year. I started off pretty strong, eating my veggies and avoiding too many meats, but last night had a huge craving for ice cream from my favorite local ice cream shop. As soon as I got the ice cream, I thought me caving was an automatic defeat. I've already failed at my resolution. This morning when I went to grab breakfast I wondered if I should just go ahead and eat the pound cake and just wait till next week to begin my clean eating again.
Then I remembered that just because I faltered off my goal a little bit, doesn't mean that I should give up. It's okay that we need a break sometimes, but we can't let those breaks defeat us. We have to keep pushing ourselves even when our plan isn't perfect. Within this "pushing" we still need to feed our body what it wants, literally and figuratively. Putting so much weight on our goals can pressure us out of them.
When you think you've fallen off your plan, breathe, get back on your path, and love yourself for every choice you make.
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