It’s New Year’s Day and I Refuse To Fail

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I had big plans for the day.

I wanted to get the new year started off on the right foot. My goals were set, my schedule lined out. I wanted to find success on the first day of the new year.

What I didn’t want was to get called in to work on my day off. I didn’t want to give up spending a day with my family. I didn’t want to blow my schedule before I even had a chance to get started on it.

But, we don’t always get what we want, right?

Life has a way of derailing the plans you so carefully construed. Reality has a way of crashing through your routines and often derails your path to success.

These thoughts went through my mind on my drive home tonight.

I was pissed that I was going to fail before I even started. I was angry that I lost my day that I had planned down to the minute in order to meet my goals. But, as I pulled up into my driveway and glanced down at the clock, my mindset shifted.

It was 10:30 at night, which meant that technically I still had an hour and a half. Exhausted, I put my car in park and sat there looking at the clock.

10:31.

As much as I wanted to go inside, climb into bed and shut my eyes, I didn’t want to fail.