It’s hard to stick to new stuff.
We sign up to new things all the time – fitness regimes, ideas, podcasts, committees – and the initial burst of enthusiasm is usually enough to sustain the first days and weeks. After that, things start to fall away. Life happens. We miss a day, and then another of our fitness regime. We forget about that podcast we were into. We see the committee meeting in our calendar and groan a little, because we know we’ve got nothing to report this time. Things take longer to happen than we expect, and we lose faith and energy in the interim.
No matter how committed we are to something in principle, sustaining momentum is hard for everyone. Sometimes we get stalled because we’re waiting on someone or something else to happen and that delay becomes a killer. Sometimes, we just drop the ball. We know this, we live this – and yet we still launch into every new thing as though it will be different this time.
Epiphanies are exciting, but they’re not the stuff that transformation is made of. Real transformation might need a catalyst to get started, but after that, it’s about showing up and doing the work.
When you’re trying to lose weight, it really doesn’t matter what system you pick - if you stick to it, even when you’re not seeing the results you want initially, it will work. Personal or organisational change is the same – it’s far more about consistency than about creativity.
Alicia McKay