Make It Your Year

Those who achieve success are not those who never fail; they are those who learn from failure and move on. Pete Carroll was laughed out of the NFL before he became the most dominant coach in college
football; Donald Trump was seeking bankruptcy protection before he made his real estate fortune.
These aren’t men who said, “Well, I tried, I failed, I think I’ll sit on the couch, wallow in guilt and misery…oh, look, Doritos!” They failed, and then they changed.

A lot of us would like to invite change into our lives. We’d like to clean out the cobwebs, suction off useless flab, wake up the dead spots. But as much as we hope, forces align themselves with the same old same old. It’s almost like an echo of the force of gravity. Marriages made in Hollywood fall apart. Politicians remind us of what they gave up to pursue their careers.

Instead, consider the positive spin: You’re just 5 weeks from the start of better things. That’s because 5 weeks, it turns out, is a magical length of time: New research from the University of Sheffield, in England, tells us that if you can stick with a new health initiative for that length of time, it will become a habit.

…Change isn’t just possible, it can happen sooner than you think. And this can be your year to win it all!

Taken from opening remark in Men’s Heallth Tips 2007 booklet