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Get ready to eat your elephants in 2020
We all have our own elephants. You know that feeling when you’ve got something to do, but that something just feels too big for you to complete?
Those are your elephants, and it’s at this time of year where we start thinking what elephants we want to eat, in the form of new year’s resolutions.
You might want to lose 20lbs, or write a book, or learn to speak Spanish. It could be to renovate your basement, or sort your attic, or read every book in the Top 100 Books of all Time list.
They’re big things which aren’t going to happen overnight and sometimes you never get round to starting them because the prospect of trying to achieve the goal is just too big.
Like elephants, they are big beautiful things, that are potentially powerful in our lives, but they are so big that if someone asked you to eat one, the prospect is just too crushing and so you feel it’s pointless to even start nibbling away.
But people manage to eat their metaphorical elephants every day, or at least little bits of them. Let’s think of them as elephant burgers.
