New Years Resolutions...

Having now watched both 'Love Actually' and 'The Holiday' this month, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Which is great. 

BUT... Waiting for Jan 1st to change your life is a classic cognitive trap. It externalises responsibility instead of building the internal discipline that sustains change. 

I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. I do believe in consistency, commitment, and taking responsibility for your own development.

The military understands this instinctively: you don’t wait for perfect conditions to prepare. You train before you need it. Behavioural change works the same way. Capability is built in advance, through repetition. 

Motivation will wane. Discipline will endure...!!

Having done a wee bit of googling, (perhaps unsurprisingly) up to 80% of NYE resolutions fail within weeks. Not because people are lazy or idle, but because they rely on an arbitrary date (01 Jan) rather than systems. The literature is MEGA clear on this: habits form through small, repeatable behaviours that gradually reshape identity.

Of course: Enjoy some R&R over Christmas. Spend time with family and friends. But try not to fully wrap. If you want to upgrade your life, get going now. Change isn’t seasonal. It’s conditioned daily.