why i failed in the first week of the new year

I had every intention of starting off the New Year right. I made up in my mind that when the clock striked 12:00 am on January 1st, that all the goals that I set for the New Year were already mine. Then the next day passed, then the next and the next. By the time Sunday came I hadn’t started working on the goals that I set the previous year. I told myself that I would work out three times a week, eat more healthy meals, and have a side hustle that made me money. However, by the end of the first week, none of these things were accomplished yet being worked on. I still was eating chicken alfredo, passing by my treadmill as if it wasn’t there, and using my son as an excuse to not push myself to get a side hustle.

Yall I failed miserably this first week of the new year! Like if I had to give myself a grade for this week it would be a big fat F! But the beauty of going into a new year is that I have 51 more weeks to get my life together. To lose the weight I want before my family trip. To buy healthy food so that I’m not tired chasing after my son when he begins to walk. To find that side hustle that will help me pay off debt. So, I’m learning to give myself grace but not to the point where I continually make excuses for my own failures.

I am human and will always fall short of perfection even though in my head I aspire to be perfect in every aspect in my life. I am slowly beginning to embrace that the beauty of life is that things will never be perfect and so there is something to always strive for. Ladies what have you fallen short of in the first week of the new year? Is there anything that you have learned in the first week of the new year?