2018 Goals: Crash & Burn

I always get excited for a New Year #2019. Last year you could find me on January 1, 2018 glued to my kitchen table filling out all the downloadable worksheets from Pinterest I could find: new goals, new motivation, determination, discipline. Hell, lets just make a whole new me! 2018 is going to be great!!! HA! It should be a small surprise to you to know that I stayed jacked up and on track for smashing all of my 2018 goals for a whole 1, 2, 3 weeks! That's right! By January 31, I was already hauling ass on the hot mess express, loaded up with a suitcase full of excuses about why I couldn't get it done: it was too hard, too much work, not enough hours in the day, not enough sleep, my kids are driving me crazy, blah, blah, blah!

But see here's the thing, I was really good at faking still chasing my 2018 goals! Not many people would have noticed or realized that I turned into a total slacker just 3 weeks into the year. Truthfully, you can hide just about anything if you use social media the right way. The problem was, is I wasn't being honest with myself and I didn't have any tools to guide me along the way. I thought I could just get it all done, magically on my own. Yeah right!

July rolled around and I realized that I had accomplished NOTHING. Not one thing on my goal list was crossed off. What kind of a loser was I?! I mean who does that? Who wastes all their time and energy at the beginning of a New Year setting goals and ambitions to make yourself a better human and not do one thing on the list that you-yourself so carefully created in your own painful handwriting? ME! Oh, was I ever pissed at myself! Picture the scene in Liar Liar when Jim Carey is kicking the crap out of himself in the men's restroom. That's what I was doing to myself over and over again in my head. As I'm sure you know, that tactic did absolutely nothing for me except pull me down and farther away from the goals I had set for myself.

How did I pull myself out? Well, I'm still working on it, but I started reading and paying attention to the people who have reached their goals and what they had to say. I mean they must have done something right to be where they are! I also started praying, a lot! I pray for discipline, strength, determination and motivation every single day, multiple times a day. I also started waking up earlier. I'm still working on this one because I am absolutely not a morning person! The only time I like to drag my ass out of bed before dawn is to go hunting or fishing. Otherwise I'm like a Grizzly Bear waking up way too early in the springtime. I feel like for the first time I have some tools to help me accomplish the goals that I set for myself. A contractor or a doctor can't tackle and complete a big job or a surgery without their tools so why should we attempt to tackle our life goals with no tools? I am heading into 2019 with a few tools that I know is going to help me be more successful, not just for the next year but forever.

1. Rise early and get done what you can't do when others are around.

2. Surround yourself with like-minded people (this means people you know that have accomplished a lot and pick their brain! Talk to them and ask them how they got to where they are. You can always learn something from someone!)

3. Read books and look things up on the internet. Don't know how to get where you want to go? Google it or I'm sure Amazon has the perfect book you need.

4. Pray, ask for what you want and guidance to get there. Mediate, reflect and imagine (in vivid detail) where you want to be in 1 year, 5 years and 10 years. Write it all down. I always have to write everything down otherwise it doesn't stick in my brain. I can picture it so well if I'm writing it down and then I can go back, read it and add to it. I think this is really fun and it has been keeping me motivated thinking about all the fun I can have with my family in the future.

I hope these tips will help you as much as they have helped me. So go kick some ass and smash your goals for the rest of your life! That's my plan anyway.

Also, if your wondering if I actually accomplished any of my 2018 goals? The answer is a solid Hell No! You guys 2018 sucked the life out of me. It was hard, but that's not an excuse. Life is damn hard and I am damn blessed! My #1 goal for 2019 is to always remember how blessed I am and never take that for granted.