2017 is four days away and many sportscasters are setting New Year’s resolutions. While I am a huge believer in resolutions, I’m not at all an advocate of New Year’s resolutions.
If change is worth making, it’s worth making now.
Regardless of when you make them, most resolutions fail for one reason…
Fear of failure.
In 1995, when I was a weekend and fill-in host at the old XTRA Sports 690 in San Diego, I made a resolution to get a full-time sports talk gig within the nine months.
Nine months passed and I was still a weekend and fill-in host in San Diego. (If a resolution fails, there is solace in having it fail in paradise).
It was only through the wisdom of aging that I realized years later why my resolution didn’t come to fruition. I gave maybe only 40% effort to make it become reality. I didn’t go all-in because if I did and came up short, I would have felt like I failed; Like I wasn’t good enough to achieve my dream of being a full-time host.
[Tweet “Don’t let fear of failure stop you from going all-out in pursuit of your New Year’s resolution.”]What the 28 year old me didn’t understand but that I know now is that putting 100% effort towards my resolution would have left me much better off than I had been before.
I still would have won.
Regardless of when you make a resolution, don’t let fear of failure stop you from going all-out in pursuit of it. It is the pursuit that guarantees growth.
