New Year's Resolutions (A Recommendation Against Them)
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Many years ago I made a resolution I have kept without fail and it has made
my whole life happier.
I decided never, ever to make a New Year's Resolution.
And every year I live a calm and happy life with the happy expectation of
good things to come. It's great!
The sad thing is that friends around me begin to whimper within days of
January 1 about how they have failed to keep their resolutions.
Why wait until January 1 to break a bad habit or take up a new good habit?
Do it when you think of it, but don't make yourself or the rest of the
universe any promises you might end up breaking.
That's my best advice for New Year's Eve. Laugh or party or sleep, and wake
up without fear of failure!
Sandra
my whole life happier.
I decided never, ever to make a New Year's Resolution.
And every year I live a calm and happy life with the happy expectation of
good things to come. It's great!
The sad thing is that friends around me begin to whimper within days of
January 1 about how they have failed to keep their resolutions.
Why wait until January 1 to break a bad habit or take up a new good habit?
Do it when you think of it, but don't make yourself or the rest of the
universe any promises you might end up breaking.
That's my best advice for New Year's Eve. Laugh or party or sleep, and wake
up without fear of failure!
Sandra
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Another option is a very loose intention list for the coming year. I've done
this for the last few and I really like it. Not the "I will do this as of Jan
1" or "I'll stop this as of Jan 1". But rather have a list, sort of journal
style, of some things in life I'd like to focus on more in the coming months.
It's neat to write some goals on paper, and the change of year can be a good
time for it. It's also neat to pull it out again a few months later and see
what I've done and see what I know longer want to do. And if there's
something I've wanted for a few years and haven't done it, then I get to
figure out if it's something I really wanted in the first place or what's
behind me not doing it.
This type of list doesn't make me feel obligated or burdened in the least.
More of a self awareness thing. I journal a lot and I think of the New Year
list as sort of a broader perspective of where I'm at and where I want to go.
Brenda
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this for the last few and I really like it. Not the "I will do this as of Jan
1" or "I'll stop this as of Jan 1". But rather have a list, sort of journal
style, of some things in life I'd like to focus on more in the coming months.
It's neat to write some goals on paper, and the change of year can be a good
time for it. It's also neat to pull it out again a few months later and see
what I've done and see what I know longer want to do. And if there's
something I've wanted for a few years and haven't done it, then I get to
figure out if it's something I really wanted in the first place or what's
behind me not doing it.
This type of list doesn't make me feel obligated or burdened in the least.
More of a self awareness thing. I journal a lot and I think of the New Year
list as sort of a broader perspective of where I'm at and where I want to go.
Brenda
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>I wholeheartedly agree! Last night dh asked what my resolutions were. I told
>I decided never, ever to make a New Year's Resolution.
>
him:
"To be perfect."
Then I went on to explain that very few people keep their resolutions and if
I am going to pick some arbitrary flaw to change, I may as well just try to
be perfect. This is something I KNOW I will fail at, because no one is
perfect, it is an unattainable goal and therefore all the pressure is taken
off me to do something "real".
I do have one resolution but not for new years - it is to be much more
active on this list and my homesteading list (by the grace of Dodd). But as
you can see, i am starting today rather than some pseudo-start date.
Elissa