Why Resolutions Don’t Work

ELON JOBS
Reflex
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2 min readOct 7, 2023

Dear Elonaire,

I write to wish you well in this thriving time.

September is gone. October is drifting away.

I don’t need to remind you of the obvious.

But do you remember your New Year resolutions?

How far have you gone with those big things you planned to achieve and those massive changes you envisioned making?

Not as well as you hoped.

Sorry, but hope is not a strategy.

You can rant all you want about the fluctuating price of dollars, change in government, inflation, and the death of Mohbad – and how they held you back a thousand miles.

I get it.

Honestly, I do. (No sarcasm intended)

The truth is: the rat race doesn’t work. New year resolutions are a pain in the ass. They are “resolutions” for a reason – it’s because they are not “solutions”.

But if you are still hooked on those opium racing to meet at least 50% of your goals so that you can pat yourself on the back that you didn’t fail your forefathers, I have a word of warning for you.

“Don’t seek refuge in a monastery if you don’t want to become a monk.”

If you push the wrong buttons because you are in the “ember haste” and you must buy a “Benz” before this year ends, the damage may be irreparable.

Don’t try to fix a structure problem with action magic.

You need a bridge not a pole vault.

The reason you haven’t attained much of your “resolutions” and “goals” for the year is that you failed to break them down to realistic day targets, the weekly milestones, and the quarterly results.

And that’s the “structure” problem you need to fix.

Rushing in “rush hours” causes fatal accidents. Don’t be tempted by the chattering of the crowd.

Fix your structure. Build your healthy routine. Stop looking for quick hacks.

“Don’t seek refuge in a monastery, if you don’t want to become a monk.”

Layout exactly how you want to win, make big dreams realistic for you to attain. Every dream that must come through must go through a planned process with precise execution.

If you’re clueless on how to get your mess together, and structure your life to work for you and not against you, I will propose you join my e100 paid community to partake in the Success Habit Challenge.

Click the link below to join the waiting room: https://chat.whatsapp.com/E1EIQFzK4i25H5aQxg4mey

See you on the inside.

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ELON JOBS
Reflex
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