Start again

I was reading a book today, and it cited a stat: 88% of Americans quit their New Year’s goals within two weeks of making them.

That made me wonder: Why?

Are our goals too ambitious? Do we set goals we never really wanted in the first place? Every January, millions of people make resolutions. Every year, most of them quietly fall away.

I’ve always been a goal setter, and I know goals take work.

This year, I set a goal to write and publish a blog post every day. So far, I’ve done it. Not because it’s been easy. There have been plenty of days I wanted to quit. But I kept going.

Here’s what I’ve been thinking about, though: even if I quit tomorrow and never make it to 365 posts, I could always start again.

Maybe that’s the point.

Maybe success isn’t about never stopping. Maybe it’s about restarting.

Today is June 17th. We’re nearly halfway through the year. If your New Year’s goals have fallen by the wayside, you don’t have to wait until next January. You don’t need a new planner, a new month, or a new year.

You can restart today.

And honestly, I wonder how many people restart a goal after they’ve quit. There might be a statistic out there somewhere.

But it doesn’t really matter.

You can restart.

So why not start today?

What’s one goal you quietly let go of this year — and what would it look like to restart it today, exactly where you are?