WOTA #145 - Abandon Your Resolutions

Often people start a new year making resolutions at the beginning of it, but abandon them after a few weeks or months. Why is that? This is what we dig into on this one.

We look at why many of us end up defaulting back into our old ways, our old habits or we simply allow our old patterns dominate us all over again. Part of the problem that we identify in this episode is how we treat our lives, ourselves, or goals, our dreams, our resolutions and sometimes even our relationships as if they are static, unchanging things.

We don't recognize that all these values we have are dynamic, moving targets. We lose sight of the fact that they require a re-evaluation many times over of assessing where we are with them. So, what we must keep in mind is that the things that matter most in our lives are usually changing, they are in a constant state of flux, and so are we.

In many ways we are chasing things that can be moving away from us and it is all about giving them regular attention, and out pacing them from getting too far away from our reach. To do this we need to have a strong and clear "why" that is driving us.

What we need is sound reasoning for the constant energy it takes to pursue or maintain the things that matter most in our lives. We may even need to constantly remind ourselves that they matter and why they matter so we don't get distracted.

The alternative is getting caught up in some arbitrary destination to hit and thinking that when we get there we will be done with it. Instead, look it these destinations as milestones and when you reach one of them evaluate where you are and set where you will take yourself with it next.

 

SPECIAL NOTE:

Evan published a book:

- "The Actor's Awakening: Connecting Spirituality to Craft"

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