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Why Your Resolutions Need a Better Game Plan

A new year won’t bring a new you unless you take action. This time of year is often about transition. We’re gearing up for a fresh start, but many of us find ourselves reflecting on how little progress we’ve made. The book you wanted to write? Another year has passed, and the words are still in your head rather than on paper. You planned a weight loss journey, right? It ended in March. That path to meditation and a more positive approach to mental health? You’re still anxious because meditation isn’t a complete solution.

Maybe you were one of the few who achieved your goals this year. If so, you’d no longer be afraid, something many of us still struggle with. We see a new year as a chance to start over, but how can we do that if we’re still stuck in the past? How can we move on without letting go? Emotional baggage weighs just as much as the luggage we carry in our cars. It’s time to start traveling lightly.

It’s time to face what you’ve been avoiding, whether it’s the fear of the unknown or the fear of failure, because you don’t deserve to live another year like this. You don’t deserve to wait another year. Stop living your life as a supporting character and realize that you are the lead in your own film.

In any film, the main character hits a low point. They make mistakes or say the wrong thing. They lose everything, whether due to natural causes, bad luck, or their own actions. But in every film and novel, the main character wakes up. They can either take responsibility for their lives and continue the story, or they can choose not to and accept their fate, where nothing changes.

For the past year, I’ve been on the sidelines, thinking nothing will change. This year has been my lowest point. This is my rock bottom. To be honest, I think it has been for many of us. Many of us have succumbed to the isolation this pandemic has caused. Many of us feel trapped, scared, and eager for change, but change won’t happen unless you take action. Life will happen to you if you don’t stand up and forge your own path.

This year, decide to act on every idea that brings you peace. Be completely honest with yourself about everything. Does social media bring you joy or increase your anxiety? If it makes you more anxious, what’s the point of keeping it? Do you even talk to the people you call “friends” on there? Or are your real friends the ones you text? Do you really need to know what the girl from high school is doing now that she has a baby or started a business? No. The answer is “no.”

But maybe your anxiety isn’t caused by social media. Maybe you’re overthinking and worrying about when the other shoe will drop. Maybe you’re anxious about when the “bad thing” will happen, like losing someone you love. If so, I’m right there with you. Trauma after a disaster is real, and it haunts me every day. But I’m tired of living with a ghost. When fear creeps in, I have to pause and ask if worrying about it will prevent anything from happening. If I have a good day, does that cause the universe to do the opposite? No. The answer is “no.” Will worrying about what hasn’t happened change its course? No. It never has and never will.

Fight. Fight harder than ever, because waking up on New Year’s Day with a resolution to drink more water won’t cut it. If you want to change your life, you must take a leap of faith into the unknown and make sacrifices. You may have to work longer hours to afford therapy for your anxiety, but it’s worth it. That will help you more than anything else, because anxiety, depression, and trauma can cloud our judgment. You can’t make your bed if all you do is lie under the sheets.

Fight. You must work hard to overcome the whispers in your mind that tell you tomorrow is another day. Because that’s what New Year’s resolutions are about—starting your health journey, whether physical or emotional, next month. And then it becomes two months. Then three. Then four. Until you’re back here, a year later and a year older, wishing you had taken action back then. Fight. Fight harder than ever before to take control of what’s holding you back. Eliminate what consumes too much of your time. Find trust in counseling, because at the end of the day, it’s something we all need. And it’s nothing to be afraid of.

Fight hard to become the person you want to be. Fight hard to live where you want. Fight for the time you want to spend doing what you love. I know it isn’t easy. We have bills and a lifestyle we’re accustomed to. We have responsibilities, but if life has taught me anything, it’s that time passes too quickly. And there’s more to life than getting the latest iPhone, working yourself to death, and taking a yearly vacation. It may not seem simple, but it is. We’re just too scared to see it until it’s too late.

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