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New Year’s Resolutions And Why They Suck
Next year, I’ll have that beach body. Next year, I’ll lose 10kg. Next year, I’ll learn Spanish. Next year, I will …
STOP! You’re making my ears bleed. You and I and everyone in this world knows that shit isn’t going to happen. Everything will be different in January, and maybe in February, but by March, we’re back to normal. Just as it used to be. And we’ll continue to be that way, until at the beginning of the following year, things will magically change again.
Yeah. Not very satisfying, is it?
Well, good that you’re here. Because I have a very strong opinion on achieving goals, and it starts with setting very different goals from what you’re used to.
Bill Gates once said: “most people overestimate what they can do in a year, and underestimate what they can do in ten.”
I think that’s true, and I also think that it’s true on a shorter horizon. So fuck it, let’s rewrite the quote. Am I Bill Gates? No, nor do I share his wisdom. But you can be whoever you want to be on the internet, and therefore I take the authority to simply create my version of it:
“Most people overestimate what they can do in a day, and underestimate what they can do in a year.”
