New Year Resolutions.....Can't wait until everyone forgets their resolutions and life goes back to normal...or until I get back the quiet, unpopulated area in which I run with the dog. Is that mean?
Honestly it it has been years since I said to myself; " I WILL do this....and that....and be better at some random skill....and those are MY resolutions for the New Year!!"...You know why I find this silly - It never happens this way. Why do you have to wait for some arbitrary time of year in order to accomplish something? Especially when that time of year is generally one of the coldest, harshest and darkest time of the year. It practically screams depression, frostbite and comfort eating. And maybe that's way we place so much importance on change and looking forward to the future? The bleak winter months practically beg us, as sun worshipers, to find something bright and fulfilling to look forward to, or work towards. I still don't get it.....
Of course I 'reboot' every January. I have spent the last month eating badly over the holidays - so I take the New Year as a cue to 'reboot' by metabolism and eating well. But this is something I have done for many years and it isn't so much a 'resolution' it's just what I do normally.
Do you know what are the most popular resolutions are....almost every year....
1. Spend more time with family
2. Make time for fitness
3. Tame the bulge.
4. Quit smoking
5. Enjoy life more
6. Quit drinking
7. Get out of debt.
8. Learn something new.
9. Help others more
10. Get organized.
While I find these resolutions important in their own right - I find it interesting that people say to themselves or 'resolve' to spend more time with family, or enjoy life more....starting.....NOW! Really? You can't make the effort year-around? You need to make a resolution to actually do it or you won't? Learning something new should be a daily habit anyway....are you telling me that unless you actually make yourself do it, you learn NOTHING NEW during any given day?
As I said....these are all valid and honorable goals. But all to often people place so much importance and pressure on these goals that as soon as they fall through with one or more of them....it's over and forgotten. Family, Health and Self-improvement should be year-round; it should be fluid, changing. It should be like anything else in your life - It might not happen everyday and it might not be exactly the way you want it to happen....but that's ok.....no one is perfect and that's not the point of a 'resolution'....the point is to try.
You don't need to change your resolutions, you need to change your way of thinking.
You don't have to to make it happen all at once...everyday. You just have to remember that want to make it happen and tomorrow is another day.
We aren't all Bono - help yourself before you can help others. Once you have that one figured out you WILL help others.
Your body is constantly changing and the needs of your body change.....telling yourself you are going to, ' Lose the extra pounds' or 'be more fit'......are statements, they aren't goals or even realistic. Start small....build it up and make it clear to yourself what you really want....
The only 'resolution' I have this New Year and every New Year is this - Never give up. Never Give in.
Happy New Year Blogger Peeps.
What will you do in the New year?
