Your Choices Today Matter
A New Year Plea
Takeaway: The turn of the year can play a funny mental trick where we think a new, promising beginning is just beyond the next rotation around the sun. This can lead us to lose sight of the importance of our actions right now. Your choices today, and everyday leading into the New Year, and everyday thereafter, matter.
New beginnings are great.
New opportunities, new goals, and renewed hope. These things are inspiring and move us to action.
You know what’s hard?
Endings.
Some worse than others. Some expected and some not so much. Some we welcome with open arms, and others we try to deny for as long as possible.
And another funny thing about endings: they give us this mistaken sense that it’s not worth trying anymore.
Remember “senior-itis?” That feeling of laziness and “why bother,” because every bit of effort from there forth won’t actually impact your eligibility for college or have any profound impact on your future.
How about those of us who have experienced being hired for a new job, a better job, and we’re simply fulfilling the obligation of our two-week notice? I promise, you’ve never been so fed up with a job than when you realize there’s a better one waiting for you just beyond the horizon.
In these scenarios, the effort put into the ending doesn’t necessarily affect your new beginning. What’s done is done.
This isn’t the case with your health.
The only beginning is birth, and the only end is, well, the end.
The turn of the year can play a funny mental trick where we think a new, promising beginning is just beyond the next rotation around the sun. This can lead us to lose sight of the importance of our actions right now, the moment in time when we’re likely to experience our own version of senioritis.
You can either make the decision to change, or not, in the New Year, but you can also make that decision right now.
Your health, your confidence—your life—doesn’t begin or end in the New Year, it begins or ends with every choice you make from the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep at night.
Your choices today, and everyday leading into the New Year, and everyday thereafter, matter.
Now you have to decide what to do about it.
Happy New Year!
~ Coach Alex