insanity
Well, I hope I’ve waited long enough for each of you to blow your new year’s resolutions before I blog on the topic.
It’s not that I wish you bad. In fact, I do wish you success. That is, if you do want to succeed. I’m leaving open the possibility that you don’t want to succeed; the passive-aggressive and self-sabotagers among us fall into that category.
I know from cruel, personal experience that people are more open to listen to advice when they’ve blown it. When you feel like you’ve got it all together, you don’t need to listen to anyone else, because you are just cruuuuising, dig?
But if your goal is to maintain your New Year’s resolution, then there’s just one little truth I’d like to ever-so-humbly remind you of.
If you want something to change, you have to do something different.
Ponder that for a minute. It’s so simple it’s easy to move over it rather quickly and not let the profound truth sink in.
It’s more poetically phrased in one of my favorite quotes:
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”***
This does apply to many, many areas in our lives – not all, but many.
You cannot keep on doing the same thing and expect things to change.
Profound. At least to my simple brain.
*** I diligently searched for the author of that statement so I could give credit to him/her, but found opposing viewpoints….most people attribute it to Albert Einstein, but another large group attributes it to Rita Mae Brown. Since I get this info off the internet, they could both be wrong. But I did try.