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What if I can’t keep up?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Is that fear lurking in the shadows whenever you get up the courage to try some new habit?\u00a0 “Will I just end up failing and kick myself for even trying?”<\/p>\n These fears sure cropped up for me as I faced one barrier after another in my quest to first break free of one unhelpful habit (drinking commercial nut milk with all its additives) and to then replace it with a healthier one (making my own, additive-free nut milk.)<\/p>\n Even after overcoming the five big barriers shared in the previous posts<\/a>, Doubt lingered:\u00a0 Could I stay motivated to sustain my new milk making habit?\u00a0 Or would I eventually fall off the wagon?<\/p>\n As it turns out, I did indeed “fall off the wagon,” technically speaking. Within a couple months, I was unable to make all my own almond milk and had to rely partially on store bought.<\/p>\n Just as I was winding up to demand more and better of myself, however, I had a helpful realization.\u00a0 What if the scope of my goal was the problem, more than a lack of determination and discipline on my part?\u00a0 What if it was simply unrealistic to set a goal of making all<\/em> of my own almond milk?<\/p>\n When I set that goal, I didn’t know just how much almond meal the process produced.\u00a0 But I soon discovered the problem–and how hard it was to keep up with all the leftover pulp.\u00a0 What’s more, there are extra-busy times in my life where milk-making just can’t be squeezed in.<\/p>\n So I made a “Reality Goal Adjustment.”\u00a0 Realistically, I couldn’t make all<\/em> my own almond milk right off the bat.\u00a0 So I revised my goal to instead make half<\/em> of my own almond milk.\u00a0 Even at 50%,\u00a0 I’ll still be way ahead of where I was–and I wouldn’t waste almond meal or stress myself out trying to make my own milk 100% of the time.<\/p>\n Of course a little voice inside nagged at me.\u00a0 “You’re just making excuses and flaking out.”\u00a0 There is indeed a fine line between being realistic and making excuses.<\/p>\n What do you think–did I make a realistic goal adjustment or really just flake out?\u00a0 I’d love to hear your opinion.\u00a0 Just leave a comment below–but don’t be too harsh!<\/p>\n And what about you and your resolutions?\u00a0 Do you need to make any Reality Goal Adjustments–and do you feel they are justified or just excuses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Fine Line Between Realistic Goal Adjustments–and Plain Old Flaking Out What if I can’t keep up? Is that fear lurking in the shadows whenever you get up the courage to try some new habit?\u00a0 “Will I just end up failing and kick myself for even trying?” These fears sure cropped up for me as … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,669],"tags":[678,674,677],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-is-healthy-eating","category-inspiration-and-goals","tag-failing-resolutions","tag-healthy-eating-resolutions","tag-making-almond-milk","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}