Failure is not trying

It's January 3, 2016, do you know where your goals are?  Most of us might be taking the bullet train toward our goals right now and some of us, like me are in bed coughing up a lung.   This would be about the time we start feeling defeated and wondering why we make goals that we can’t keep because life happens and stops our momentum.  It doesn’t matter if its January 3^rd ,  February 3^rd,  or December 31^st, this feeling can creep in and derail our progress.  Learning to move forward when we don’t want to is something we all have to learn, and something most successful people practice every day.

Recognize that you have made some progress even if it’s not the amount you wanted.  For example, my January Tracker shows that I didn’t do much but walk one day, read one day and worked on Make over your Year.  What it doesn’t show is that the walking I did was at a museum with the kids while coughing up a lung and the reading was 5 minutes one morning when I couldn’t sleep due to the aforementioned cough.  As I looked at my tracker, I almost..ALMOST started feeling a little disappointed.  Then I asked my husband “would it be wrong to check off walked even though I meant walking as a form or exercise and not as part of a museum trip?”  He said “no, do it”  Hmm..well, yes, I did walk, and I got out of the house even though being in bed sounded so much better and reading was reading even if it wasn’t intentional. (i.e. I am going to set this time aside to do some reading. ).  Week one of Make over your year was dreaming big, and writing down those dreams and goals.  Which can be done while in bed, coughing.

I decided to reflect on what I did accomplish.  First, I rested as much as I could because self-care is just as important as reaching our personal goals, or business goals or any goal for that matter.  If you don’t take care of you, you can’t take care of business, right?  Second, I did a few things for my business,  and set up a couple of things on my blog and even printed out and worked on my “Learn how to Mentor” course.  (Which I haven’t marked off on my tracker)  The only thing I didn’t accomplish was perfection.  Which is not possible to accomplish.  If you moved forward, then you progressed.  And that is what reaching goals is all about.  One step is better than no steps, right?