Hello, you. Hope you've had a nice week. We're six weeks into the new year now.

Time for many of us to reflect on the New Year's resolutions we considered six weeks ago

and wonder if maybe we need to revisit them. New Year's resolutions can be a great

metaphorical, motivational line in the sand for some people.

But please remember, it's a metaphorical line.

There was no starting block.

And there isn't a real deadline to it either.

Now, if you wanted the new year to give you some motivational push

to make this year more successful in some regard than

last year and help you, then obviously that's brilliant. But if the size of the thing you wanted

to achieve when you set the resolution in January still paralyzes you now because it's

maybe too overwhelming, then that's not so brilliant.

And it'd be a good idea to maybe change the goalposts and find a better perspective on it.

Because maybe the books you said you were going to read, the friends you were going to catch up with all the health or lifestyle changes you said at the start of the year were going to happen by the end.

Maybe they don't have to be completed in a year after all. You've got the rest of your life.

Maybe you just said that something needed to happen this year out of some socially

constructed nonsense. Well, if it was you that set those goalposts, then you can move those goalposts.

The thing about these self-imposed things, though, is that being in control also means that we're ultimately

responsible for whether we achieve them or not. And that's something that needs looking at.

That's where there might need to be a perspective shift, an acceptance that goals do need to change,

but that our intentions were good, that we're not a useless

piece of crap for moving the goalposts, we're just being realistic, given that it's likely

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