Today is January 2, 2015. By now, most people have made their resolutions and are well into Day 2 of them but not me. I thought long and hard on whether or not to make New Year's resolutions this year. You see, I am not one that generally keeps them and by "not keeping them" I mean I tend to break them almost immediately. That's what I've been thinking about for the past two days. Why I never followed through with a single New Year's resolution. I finally came up with the only answer that made sense.
In the past, my New Year's resolutions were almost always having to do with making some enormous change in my life. Looking back, I can see that I was setting myself up for failure because those changes were always something someone else wanted or something I thought would make someone else like about me and not really about me at all. So I would quickly lose interest when I realized it didn't matter to anyone and fail. Oh, I'd try again the next year and fail again and so and so on...
So, for 2015, I'm doing things a little different this year.
I resolve to be more creative.
I resolve to be kinder to everyone.
I resolve to be better to myself.
That's it. That's all she wrote. Those are my resolutions. Simple, meaningful to me, and completely doable. The way I see it, if I can do those three things, I'll be a happier person and everyone around me will benefit from my happiness so it's a win/win situation.
Happy New Year...let's see what great things 2015 has in store for all of us!
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