Resolutions Suck. Do Dope Shit Instead.
Eleanor Rosevelt once said “the purpose of life is to live it. To taste experience to the utmost. To reach eagerly and without fear for new and richer experiences.” A.J.’s “Do Dope Shit” says the exact same thing, just much more succinctly.
Resolutions don’t work. Experience more by giving yourself permission.
There seems to be about exactly three practical ways to tackle the year ahead. The classic path of resolutions, the emerging practice of choosing a word of the year, or just saying fuck it, and doing what you’ve always done.
The later strategy is effectively no strategy at all.
And the practice of New Year Resolutions has largely failed us, if it ever worked at all.
According to some research done in 2016, only 9% of Americans who make New Year’s resolutions feel they were successful in keeping them. Said another way, of those who actually set a resolution, 91% fail to keep them.