Typical Resolutions:
- I want to loose 30 pounds
- I want to save 5000 dollars
- I want to exercise three days a week
- I want to walk the dog everyday
- I want to eat dinner with my family 3 times a week
- I want to be home from work by 7pm
That time of the year has come, just like it always does. The leaves have fallen from the trees, the temperature has dropped to below 30 degrees, the thought of snow has become a reality as it has now become impossible to see the car. Winter is here! The holidays have come, and so have the dinner parties, the wrapping paper and the turkey with a side of ham. Conjuring up the most creative and unique ways to make those left-overs is all that is left to do. But it feels like I have forgotten something. Think, Think... O yes, the dreaded but much needed New Year's Resolution.
Every year I go through the Holiday Motions. Thanksgiving with the family, Black Friday with the friends, Christmas morning with the children and then the New Year's Resolution. Anytime I hear those words "New Year's Resolution" it's almost as if I can hear the loud, thunderous voice of the Wizard from Wizard of Oz. Plain and simple this shit has just become a cruel project that I subject myself to e-v-e-r-y year. So, this year I decided to find out what I was actually getting myself into. According to the dictionary a resolution is a “a solution, accommodation, or settling of a problem, controversy, etc. .” Okay so I take inventory of my life, point out the obvious issues that I have but was to ignorant to address earlier, and attempt to try to fix these problems because... for the new year I want to be less of an asshole to myself then I was last year? Great! Awesome! I can do that. Right? I mean I've only failed every year and made a bigger ass out of myself for setting goals that I knew I had no intentions of being committed.
So this year I have decided no “resolutions”, but I will call what it what it is because I know who I am, a challenge. LOL. If I truly want this coming year to bring me more success, more happiness and more joy I will have to challenge myself to be the things I desire. So join me if you dare. Be the change you desire. Confront the obstacles of this year and those to come by giving 100% in all you do. By doing that the only thing you can ask for your next year is the stability to sustain your new passion for change. Challenge yourself!
