It’s Not Too Late! (Really, It’s Not)

It’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now – that’s not only a catchy phrase, but also the title of a very good self-help book by Barbara Sher.

But this post isn’t about Barbara Sher or self-help books.

This post is about the fact that it’s January 4, and you either:

1) didn’t get to your New Year’s Resolutions made before January 1st, or

2) you DID come up with some, but you’ve already fallen behind.

And now you’re discouraged.

And it’s only January 4th.   And you’ve decided that resolutions are stupid.

My response to that is “So what?”

So what if you didn’t make a list of resolutions, but really wanted to?  So what if you made them and really meant it, but you’ve already stumbled and broken one (or 3)?  So what??

Resolutions, or life changes, are things you have to recommit to every single day.  It doesn’t really matter what the calendar says.

If you only commit your thoughts and efforts to new, better habits once a year, you are certain to fail.

January 1st is a convenient day full of pomp and attention when people are very vocal about making resolutions.

But, really, to live a successful, productive, joyful life – you’ve gotta look at your priorities and your commitments every single day.  Living life on purpose requires attention to the present, to “now”.

Every single “now”.

And I want to live life on purpose.

I want to throw myself into every single day that I wake up on this side of the ground and live every moment as if it’s my last.

Because it just might be.

Remember when we talked about your Word for 2015 a few days ago?  My word was Focus.  Every day requires focusing.

If you somehow missed the January 1st Resolution train, or you started out riding but got off at the wrong stop – just pick yourself up, tell yourself that all is not lost, and begin again.  Refocus.  Be purposeful.

It doesn’t matter what day it is.  Be purposeful EVERY day.

Every single day is another new day to begin again, to make today better than any day before it.

Let’s make “New DAY Resolutions”, shall we?