Planning to Fail: Tips For Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Your Goals

When the new year rolls around, there are always tons of articles and news stories about sticking to your NYE resolutions. Despite all of this advice, accomplishing New Year's goals can feel quite elusive. Even though we all seem to have the capacity to make resolutions, very few of us actually reach the finish line and accomplish them.

Because of this, one of my favorite quotes when it comes to goal-setting is:

If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall; this is the physics of vulnerability. - Brene Brown

From this quote, we see that the problem with resolutions isn't that people give up on them. It's that we don't account for the inevitable failure that will come along the way. And when we set out to achieve any big, brave goal, we WILL fail.

The truth is…

Our motivation will wane.  

Life will happen.  

We'll fall short of milestones and deadlines.

We'll feel overwhelmed and scared.

And we'll want to give up...often.

That's why, when it comes to resolutions, planning to overcome the ob…