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How to Hack Your Life
By most statistical measures, New-Year-vibes are beginning to fizzle out mid-way through the month, as roughly a third of us give up on our resolutions. They start to drop off and we look sheepishly over our shoulders at them cast off along the path and then we start to rationalize. . .
Our goals were overly ambitious to begin with, perhaps, or we had other more pressing concerns on our plate, or maybe it is the case that New Year’s Resolutions are just silly, sentimental things cooked up by our too-optimistic imaginations anyways and by the way, who says it needs to be January 1st for me to start reaching toward a goal?
Luckily, there’s a way to protect yourself against this mid-month malaise. I like to call it “hacking your life”. And whatever your roster of New Year hopes and dreams are, such a strategy actually involves shifting your attentions up and away from single-minded pursuit of these goals.
Let me explain: If you have a goal of eating healthier, for example, you’ve probably been schooled (via popular culture, the American education system, you name it) in how you go about accomplishing this objective. The go-to strategy normally goes something like this: You break down this actually somewhat vague, watery idea of “eating healthier” into smaller, more specific, and more actionable goals.
