Making a New Year's Resolution? Not Me!

Are you making a New Years Resolution? If you are did you put a lot of thought into it? Have you made them before and broke them? As the ball drops, the drinks are passed out, and the fireworks explode I will be thinking of only one thing: I do not have a resolution. I'm not making one this year, and here is why!

Making New Years Resolutions is as old as time itself. I have made them in the past and just not kept them. It is almost impossible to keep them as time passes in the year. Normally people pick out something like losing 100 pounds in the year. For some people this might be realistic, but most people it is not a realistic resolution. Decide what is best for you and your situation.

I feel that without making a resolution for new years this year, and then I can focus on my family and me. I can only imagine how my life this year will unfold. But if I have a resolution holding me back and making me feel trapped, I might miss part of my year! I would not want this to happen.

Instead, this year I am going to just focus my life on making me happy and others around me. I want to learn to live better and simpler. I want to be able to have a great year and looking back and be like wow, that year was GREAT! My life is normally not planned, spur of the moment, and random.

If you do make one, do not make it something that is impossible to keep. I never made mine about something silly. They always start out to mean something and then fade to something that seems like a chore during my time in the year. Choose something simple, something that might be able to include your family. Do not make them just about you, do not over resolution yourself, and most importantly never make the resolution to please anyone else.

A small goal of exercise each day, or maybe so many minutes a week is a little more of a goal that you can stick with. Just be sure to remember life. Have fun with life and do not sit back and watch things happen. Also remember that things do not always go as planned.

With whichever you decide to pick, have a great 2008.

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