New year is here and for most of us today is our first day at work in 2011. As we woke up on January 1st (and sobered up) we were generally highly motivated to stick with the resolutions we made last week/year and believe that this year it will be different, that it will be better somehow. New year always brings new resolutions, mostly positive attitudes and excitement that this year we will do better than the year before. Some of the common ones (in no particular order) are: we will get a better job, work harder, get married, have a kid, lose weight, get back to school, buy that dream house/car, stop procrastinating…the number of resolutions is endless. While some people actually follow through on their resolutions and have measurable results before the year is over majority doesn’t.
Most of us will sooner or later give up or simply come up with excuses (generally poor ones) why we have failed to accomplish what we set out to do. Why is this the case, why are we excited for the first week or two of the new year and then it all goes back to the old way of doing things, we lose our excitement, our drive, our hustle. Why can’t we always be confident and determined to do the best we possibly can every single day?
I understand that January 1st is a nice, “tangible” separation and reference point used to reevaluate, review and move forward, but I can’t seem to understand why is it that we can’t do our best every single day. As the weeks go by, why do we lose the momentum we almost always have at the beginning of January?