I made a New Years Resolution! ... Finally.
I have decided that I want to be kinder and choose my words more wisely. I have decided I want to broaden my views on the world and learn everything there is to know. I have decided to try and eat healthier; I have decided to try to work-out more often than the current zero times a week. I have decided to make minute changes to myself day by day. And I decided this all in February.
Why so late? You ask. Well, the fact of the matter is I do not really like making New Years Resolutions. I do not jump at the idea that simply because the Earth has made it another 365 days around the sun that I must now be suddenly filled with the utmost inspiration and the ability to change my life astronomically for the better. Now, do not get me wrong, I love New Years celebrations. Little weiner dogs, pizza bagels, chips and onion dip, and my personal favorite, pork and saurkraut dinner the first day of the year for good luck. But I do not give into the hype that is New Years Resolutions.
This is honestly just a personal thing. I do not want to change your opinion or make you feel like some hack because you get more motivated to change when the end of December comes around. I just want to explain myself, and perhaps give a bit of solace and hope to those out there like me.
So, we have established that I do not so easily become motivated at the New Years to change things about myself. In fact, I can say that I become unmotivated to do such things. Being that with every New Years Resolution success story, I hear about 20 failures. Personally, that does not add up to a whole bunch of confidence or incentive. And, to me, just feeding into that hype and saying "My New Years Resolution is... !" only adds to the sometimes inevitable failure.To avoid this, I instead slowly build myself up to certain resolutions. I mull an idea over in my mind of something that I want to do better. I taste it and test it out and conceive feasible, reachable steps I can take to make it to that goal. For instance, I want to work-out more, so maybe I will go for a run once a week, maybe I'll do some planks periodically. From there I can step up my game and make more resolutions based on my successes or failures.
All in all, this system seems to work better for me. I feel like my life is a bit more manageable. I know this way I can set my own pace, and I do not need to only reset my life once every 365 days. By starting in the middle of February, I am not held down to any set time period to change certain aspects of my life. On any given day, I can see where I am unhappy and simply pick up to change what I can. Yes, life happens in seasons, but those seasons have no set start and stop time. Your life is individual, and so your seasons are individual. If you're like me and do not like New Years Resolutions on the first of the year, make resolutions whenever and wherever you see fit in your own life. It is your life after all.
