It’s 2024, a new year! With a new year generally comes new year resolutions and or goals. People will declare what they want to accomplish this year and how they plan on doing it. Maybe they will write things down, create a vision board, or get an accountability partner or life coach. All of these things are wonderful, and I am sure they help a significant minority of people.
That being said there is a commitment problem with goals and resolutions that people appear to have. Only 8% of people keep and complete their goals. And before the end of this month almost half of new year resolution setters will quit. I think there is something called goal fatigue. This is different than not achieving your goals, and I am not saying that this is why most people don’t achieve theirs, but for me when it comes to goal setting my approach has changed over the years.
There was a time in my life when goals were just shy of a requirement. I was a big goal setter. To me it was and objectively still is, one of the best ways to accomplish something, especially if you write them down. Every year sometimes before the new year would even arrive, I would pseudo ceremoniously write down my goals in a journal. Every year would be different, and I did it for about 3-4 years mainly through college. And I was successful generally. There were goals that I didn’t complete and that is typical, but then there were significant goals that I did complete and that was jubilatory.
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