The Expectation Gap, #RealTalk: “New Year, New Me” is a Piece of Sh*t

… Or just a marketing ploy.

… Or just a marketing ploy.

Bottom line:

• You can’t become someone else without losing yourself.

So why aren’t you good enough the way you are?

A question:

• Why do you need to “become someone else” to be a better person, full stop?

Spoiler alert: that was rhetorical.

You don’t.

What you need to do is evaluate what makes you, you, such that you can harness it to be — or become — the best version of yourself.

Sound a little self-help mumbo-jumbo-y?

Maybe it is, but it works — so I make no apology for it.

Fundamentally: there is nothing wrong with you.

You are a human being, just like me. We have strengths and weaknesses. We make mistakes. Hopefully, we strive to learn from these; to become “better”; to move forward and make progress within ourselves as well as professionally and personally within our lives as a whole — and hey, maybe we even actualise this once in a while.

But change takes time. There is no magic fix. And changing yourself and your life is not “a walk in the park”.

Change is hard. It t…