New Year Resolution

It's the 20th day of January, you look back at your new year resolution and things aren't going as planned.

Your gym instructor is smiling, your gym membership is going down the drain, but your instructor is not bothered. You do this every January.

You promise to become a gym rat from the first week of January. After two weeks or fewer, you resume your plate of amala by midnight. You tell yourself that a potbelly doesn't matter in heaven and the wicked run when no one chases them.

New year resolutions are often made out of excitement for the new year, the 'new year, new me' phase. The more time you spend in the new year, the more you realise there's no new you. How then do you make a difference between the previous year and the new year?

• Make realistic goals:

As easy as they sound, we get swallowed up by our ideals and forget to face reality.

If you want to become a content creator this year, your goal shouldn't be to have 1 million followers by the end of the year. That isn't realistic.

• Break your goals into realistic plans:

One of the reasons why goals are not achieved is because there's a huge gap between where you are and where you want to be. You know where you want to be, but you don't know how to get there. Break your goals for the year into monthly goals. Someone who wants to be a content creator should break goals into

- how much content is uploaded weekly or monthly

- networking events to be attended monthly or quarterly

Your plans serve as a ladder to your goals, thereby closing the huge gap between where you are and when you want to be.

I hope that with this, you can scrap your "new year resolutions" and focus on realistic goals with realistic plans.