Jerry Banfield

Would you like to actually achieve your next goal instead of making progress on it and giving up? How would you feel if your New Year's resolution for 2017 and beyond was not only accomplished but you smashed through your initial goal? For most of the last 15 years, I set goals and made New Year's resolutions but rarely ever lived up to them. For example, I would set goals of losing 10 pounds, quitting drinking, or making more money. Next I would focus only on how to achieve the goal rather than why I made it to start with. In a few days, weeks, or months, I would either have completed the goal or given up on the New Year's resolution. Either way, the purpose I originally set was never finished. If I wanted to lose weight, even when I did it I soon put the weight back on. If I was trying to stay sober for my physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, I figured a few days, weeks, or months proved "I was not that bad, I can drink again" and the original goal of being healthier was totally lost.