New Year’s Resolutions: Are They All For Not?
I don’t normally have a New Year’s Resolution…not one that I’m serious about, anyway.
Interestingly enough, I’ve always participated in Lent (even though I’m not religious, I did go to a Catholic College); but instead of allowing myself a 40 day reprieve of whatever I gave up, I gave it up for good.
Over the years, I’ve given up soda entirely, seriously reduced my sugar intake, and worked on countless other personal goals.
I can get on board with getting rid of naughty habits. The thing about New Year’s Resolutions, though, is that everyone has one and it always seems that by February 1st, no one does.
At least, that’s how I did feel.
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After thinking about it over the week, I’ve come to a different conclusion about Resolutions: time is one of the few precious things no one can change. We can’t speed it up. We can’t slow it down. We can’t go back or forward in time. It is constantly moving, and moving always at the same pace.
Instead of thinking it’s silly that people take New Year’s as a mark that their lives can finally change for the better: they finally need to start exercising, finally start that diet, or that this will finally be “their” year to work on themselves…I finally understand that it’s true.
A new year is as good a time as any to try something new or get rid of a bad habit. As long as you commit to it, that is.
Dream big.
So go out there and dream.
Dream of how you can enhance your life for the better. Go learn how to rock climb. Or finally go ski diving. Commit to that diet and get healthy. Join a gym and commit to the number of times you can actually go every week. Quit smoking. Call your family every week and tell them how much you love them. Make new friends. Fall in love. Focus on yourself.
The sky’s the limit.
The reality is: time is going to keep moving with or without you. It’s up to you whether you jump in with both feet or just toe the edge, too scared to get in. And New Year’s is the perfect time to jump.