Why Most New Year’s Resolutions Fail

Why Most New Year’s Resolutions Fail

Sue Leppan Transformation Facilitator & Life Coach

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Why Most New Year’s Resolutions Fail

By now, many New Year’s resolutions are already falling apart.

Why?

Because they are aligned with your fears, not your vision.

Most of us have learned to work hard at avoiding pain.
Avoiding failure.
Avoiding discomfort.
Avoiding the feeling that we might fall short.

What we have not been taught is how to work towards our vision, desires, and deeper purpose.

From a neuroscience and consciousness perspective, this matters deeply. The brain strengthens whatever it repeatedly focuses on. When fear becomes the motivator, we don’t move forward - we circle familiar territory.

So every January, we stand at the starting blocks believing, “This year will be different.”

And by the third or fourth week, we are exhausted.
Not because we lack discipline.
Not because we are lazy.
But because fear-driven goals drain life force.

The result?

We label ourselves a failure - and unknowingly start the year from the very identity we were trying to escape.

There is another way.

Give yourself the gift of Future Vision.

Ask yourself honestly:

What do I want?
What does my best future look like?

Only when you create a clear inner map can you stop living in the past - and stop steering your life by the rear-view mirror while trying to avoid pain.

Vision creates direction.
Direction creates energy.
Energy creates change.

Why Most New Year’s Resolutions Fail

Sue Leppan Transformation Facilitator & Life Coach

Sue Leppan is a life, transformation and holistic wellness coach based in Sandbaai, Hermanus. Providing therapy for a range of challenges, Sue specialises in targeting and dealing with emotional trauma, self-doubt, depression, stagnation and self-centring. Whether you need help with personal issues ...

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