I recently heard that the second Friday of January is the day for broken resolutions (colloquially known by the uninspiring name of Quitter’s Day). This year, that day is January 10th.
Oh wait, you may be thinking, that’s today.
Indeed.
If you signed up for a gym membership, started a diet, or otherwise laid out an optimistic Plan for a Future New You™, you might be losing steam about now.
No worries, it happens. I’m here to say that even if you slept through your “definitely getting up an hour early and going to the gym” alarm, that’s okay.
What matters is not whether you are holding fast to the letter of whatever law you set for yourself, but how you think about the type of person you want to be this year.
I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions but I do appreciate the chance to take stock of where I am and what I’m doing (or not).
A personal example: Am I writing as much as I’d like? No, but I’m working on it, and starting a new year gives me a chance to step back, reassess my current approach and think of ways to improve.
So whether you went to the gym today or not, wrote or not, checked off your resolutions or not, imagine what you want your life to be like. At the end of the day, the month, the year, what do I want to have done?
Today, take one step in that direction. Then take another. If those steps take you to the gym, great. If they keep going to some new and better vista, even better. Just keep moving, one step, then the next.
Your life is waiting for you.
“A good beginning makes a good end.”
— Louis L’Amour
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J.R. Johnson 
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