Resolved
I'm not much for New Year's resolutions because if you're going to change something within yourself you should do it when the time is right, not just because it happens to be the start of a new year.
However, I do like to take a moment each January to take stock of myself and my loved ones. Kind of like taking inventory at Sears (my wife and I did that one night after we were first married... earned $40, I think). People need to make changes in their lives, but not dramatic ones that automatically doom you to failure before you even get started. Rather, you should try to make strategic adjustments to what is working but can work better. Let the big changes come slowly.
I've also found that the changes that stick are the tangible ones. Like re-arranging your furniture. Or throwing out any article of clothing over five years old. Or deleting someone's number from your cell phone. Those are the kind of resolutions I try to make, because they're easy to do and they are usually a means to enacting further changes in the way you think, react, and feel. So if there's something about you that you want to change, start with your surroundings and see what happens next.
However, I do like to take a moment each January to take stock of myself and my loved ones. Kind of like taking inventory at Sears (my wife and I did that one night after we were first married... earned $40, I think). People need to make changes in their lives, but not dramatic ones that automatically doom you to failure before you even get started. Rather, you should try to make strategic adjustments to what is working but can work better. Let the big changes come slowly.
I've also found that the changes that stick are the tangible ones. Like re-arranging your furniture. Or throwing out any article of clothing over five years old. Or deleting someone's number from your cell phone. Those are the kind of resolutions I try to make, because they're easy to do and they are usually a means to enacting further changes in the way you think, react, and feel. So if there's something about you that you want to change, start with your surroundings and see what happens next.
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i wanna change the size of my gut.....but that's alot of damn hard work!!!
Hey chocolate you stole my resolustion. The hubby and I and our friends have until the end of March to change our guts (we go on vacation) and I decided for hubby and I, that we will not have fast food for at least one month, that way, if we must, we can splurge at the end of the month then start over again for another month.
What an interesting perspective. I don't make big, broad resolutions either, but I never thought about enabling things through small things such as getting rid of old clothes. I like it.
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