I am not making any New Year’s Resolutions. They almost always fail. The optimism and enthusiasm of facing a new calendar year tends to make us all forget that we are the same people with the same failings we have always had. A resolution won’t change that — only action will.
We can sign up for gyms, start the latest fad diet, drink nectar protein, eat energy bars, and read every self-help book published. None of it will make any difference if we don’t work to change our thought patterns. I am hoping that working to improve my self concept will help me improve my waist-line — and a couple of other personality quirks.
Here’s to making changes rather than resolutions in 2010!
The idea is not to MAKE a resolution, but to RESOLVE to make the change. It worked the year I RESOLVED to lose weight. And the year I RESOLVED to get closer to Christ. But thus far, I have not found the RESOLVE to lose weight again. I’m hoping it will come …along with the resolve to make my body feel better again!
Melli — I know, but that isn’t what it usually devolves into.
Love this! I’m not a resolution gal either. But there are some things I want to work on.
.-= Mocha with Linda´s last blog ..Another Year is Dawning =-.
Linda — ith God, one-day-at-a-time, I am hoping to change a few things for the better.
very romantic art,
I love the butterfly and its flipping wings,
it reminds me of your wild and humorous imaginations.
cool job!
happy new year,
dear!
Jingle — wild and humorous imaginations?
Well I wish you luck. I don’t do resolutions either. I never keep them. So I just take each day as it comes and hope for the best
.-= Thom´s last blog ..Hau’oli Makahiki Hou, What Chocolate Dessert Are You?, Cowboy Boots, Goodbye Mom and Bambi & Thumper ….really do exist! =-.
Thom — that’s actually part of what I plan to do — take each day as it comes.
I don’t do resolutions either. That is what I was supposed to say, right?
It isn’t that I wouldn’t keep them, it is just that there isn’t anymore room for improvement in me. Not a perfect guy but perfecly acceptable in all ways.
Don’t let that discourage you because I can tell you really do need to improve those though patterns of yours. I took care of that in the seventh grade. It certainly is well worth the effort, believe you me.
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.-= Jim´s last blog ..Happy New Year! — Happy Birthday, Mrs. Jim! =-.
Forgot to say, HAPPY NEW YEAR, QUILLY!
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.-= Jim´s last blog ..Happy New Year! — Happy Birthday, Mrs. Jim! =-.
Jim — now that I know you haven’t evolved since the 7th grade, I find you much less baffling.
Couldn’t agree more. I made a last resolution many years ago which I’ve stuck to – to not make New Year resolutions. As for self help books, I’ve always wondered why we need books for self help.
.-= Anthony North´s last blog ..XENOPHOBIA =-.
Tony — yep, I think that particular resolution is the only one I have ever been successful with!
Making resolutions is hard for me because I have such a poor memory. Tsk. That’s my excuse anyway.
.-= musings´s last blog ..Traditional New Years Eve =-.
My resolution last year was to lose weight – I did – 16lbs!
This year my resolution is to lose the other 24lbs, but I won’t start the diet until February after my long awaited Caribbean Cruise! LOL
.-= Akelamalu´s last blog ..Friday 55 Flash Fiction # 103 New Year =-.
Smart post. I agree and wish you and Amoeba a good year as the same people from aught-nine.
.-= Doug´s last blog ..Inauspiciously =-.
I usually don’t make resolutions, but this year I did. ‘Course, they weren’t your typical resolutions.
.-= Lisa´s last blog ..New Year’s Resolutions =-.
Cheers to that one & a happy new year to you and yours
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.-= Nicole´s last blog ..January Photo challenge – Go black and white =-.
I’m with ya, changes are so much more solid than resolutions.
.-= Kat´s last blog ..Another Auld Lang Syne =-.
amen to that and pft to resolutions
.-= polona´s last blog ..first minutes =-.
Happy New Year, resolutions or not! I hope all the moving chores are going well this week.
I enjoyed this post and its message. It did take me a bit too long to realise that my own resolutions worked best when letting go of achievements (lose 20 pounds, or get published in hardcover) and make my resolutions simple changes in my day (exercise 1/2 hour each day, submit my manuscript somewhere). It works!
.-= Susan at Stony River´s last blog ..Microfiction Monday #12 =-.
Saying “no” to resolutions and getting interested in taking each day as it comes…
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