The majority if not all of us throw ourselves into New Year's Resolutions either as we move towards the end or right at the very start of another year. We often write down things we hope to achieve and in hoping to achieve, sometimes it's in the form of things we wish we could change about ourselves. It’s not always about what we seek to gain(be it materialistic or just the attainment of peace of mind). Usually the first half of the year we are dedicated to seeing everything we wrote down come to fruition but as the year progresses and we miss deadlines on some of the things we wish we had accomplished by June and yet we will be in July or August, weariness creeps in. We lose the patience to see our goals through so most of us drop the list and start to live life as is which is not a problem, to begin with.
Speaking from experience, over the years I have found myself lost knowing remembering what I had set out to do and why I had lost my zeal along the way until I realized that it was not always about writing a million things down with the hope of having accomplished all of them by year-end. But it was about writing a few things down, working on a strategy first then later exploring different ways to achieve the few things you will have written down. For example; I remember this other year complaining to myself how I throw myself into something and lose morale of course as we go, so I made a promise to myself that all I wanted to do for the entire year was write and finish my anthology. I tasked myself to come up with 65 poems and as the first quarter was coming to an end I was through, still trying to make use of the creative window I set out to write another and to my surprise I found myself sitting on two finished anthologies. Never had I been proud of myself but at that moment I was. The secret wasn't because I was super creative or anything but it was simply resilience; fighting and losing more than once yet still allowing yourself to get back up, find your form then fight your way in again with the difference being that you understand your strengths and weaknesses a bit better than the previous times. So regardless of the timeline, you will be exposed to this piece of writing, it's neither too late nor too early to either start or finish something. The trick is to take failure not as the enemy of progress but as a secret ingredient in the fight and also to concentrate on small wins, they might seem minuscule as the word depicts but go a long way in getting us accustomed to accomplishments regardless of the magnitude of the said win. We are more motivated when we are certain of winning.
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