Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share New Year, New Rules (Ep. 35)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
New Year, New Rules (Ep. 35)
It’s the big day - a new year. It fascinates me that we are already at 2020.
For many people, I know the feeling they are having right now - the regret of making a New Year’s Resolution. It’s so easy to talk about doing so many things, and now it’s time to take action.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago in my podcast, a new year is just a pivot point - an opportunity to reflect on where you are on your journey and how you can take action to move forward.
This is a decade of possibility. You have a month, a year, a decade to do whatever in the hell it is that you want. It will take work, but it’s your work.
Financial independence? It’s in your grasp. New career? Fit body? All in your grasp. It will take grunts, grit, and consistent focus - but it’s there, and it’s possible. The question to ask yourself is, what are you willing to sacrifice to get there?
I often hear at the end of a year people talking about how they need to “wash this year off and start a new one.” I used to like that phrase, until I realized it was the same people saying that every December. And when I thought more about it, many of those people aren’t willing to make the change they need to stop having to say that year after year.
In this decade of possibility, you have your choices. You don’t just have the time and opportunity to work towards something - you also have the accountability.
It’s a tough pill to swallow, but a cathartic one as well, to recognize that you are the one responsible for your choices. You are the one that dictates where you go each day, month and year. Yes, society and life throw circumstances your way - but you are the one ultimately responding.
You may not like some of the decisions you have to make, and they may be very difficult ones, especially in terms of relationships and who you spend your time with. But these are all decisions and reflections to be had as you sit and think about where it is that you want to be at the end of 2020, or on this day in 2030.
So remember - this is your decade. And the new rule is that there are no rules. When you take rules away, the possibilities are endless. It’s a slightly frightening notion for the new year, no? :)
Happy New Year!
View all episodes
By Jim Frawley, Bellwether
4.6
1212 ratings
It’s the big day - a new year. It fascinates me that we are already at 2020.
For many people, I know the feeling they are having right now - the regret of making a New Year’s Resolution. It’s so easy to talk about doing so many things, and now it’s time to take action.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago in my podcast, a new year is just a pivot point - an opportunity to reflect on where you are on your journey and how you can take action to move forward.
This is a decade of possibility. You have a month, a year, a decade to do whatever in the hell it is that you want. It will take work, but it’s your work.
Financial independence? It’s in your grasp. New career? Fit body? All in your grasp. It will take grunts, grit, and consistent focus - but it’s there, and it’s possible. The question to ask yourself is, what are you willing to sacrifice to get there?
I often hear at the end of a year people talking about how they need to “wash this year off and start a new one.” I used to like that phrase, until I realized it was the same people saying that every December. And when I thought more about it, many of those people aren’t willing to make the change they need to stop having to say that year after year.
In this decade of possibility, you have your choices. You don’t just have the time and opportunity to work towards something - you also have the accountability.
It’s a tough pill to swallow, but a cathartic one as well, to recognize that you are the one responsible for your choices. You are the one that dictates where you go each day, month and year. Yes, society and life throw circumstances your way - but you are the one ultimately responding.
You may not like some of the decisions you have to make, and they may be very difficult ones, especially in terms of relationships and who you spend your time with. But these are all decisions and reflections to be had as you sit and think about where it is that you want to be at the end of 2020, or on this day in 2030.
So remember - this is your decade. And the new rule is that there are no rules. When you take rules away, the possibilities are endless. It’s a slightly frightening notion for the new year, no? :)
Happy New Year!