As the new year comes storming in faster than the last one, you start to panic about which New Year's resolution you can actually keep up with. You’ve tried them all: losing weight, saving money, and being a better person.
No matter how hard you try, you find yourself slipping away from it. By the time next December follows through, you realize you’ve got nothing accomplished.
Instead of worrying so much about your resolution for 2018, have no resolution at all. Have no expectations!
You shouldn’t have to put your happiness on a time limit. When you are working towards a goal, there is no period of time in when you have to accomplish it.
If you don’t feel like now is the time to work towards or even accomplish your goal, don’t make yourself do so just because you posted a Facebook status saying that you were going to. Truthfully, you will never fully reach your goal unless you put 100% of yourself into it; if you aren’t mentally ready, you’ll never make it to the finish line.
Stop having expectations for the person you see in magazines or movies. Be the person that makes YOU happy.
Stop worrying so much if the person you are makes the people you surround yourself with happy.
Stop telling yourself that this year will be better than the last. Stop telling yourself that you're going to shut out all the negative people and everyone who treats you poorly.
The truth is that as soon as you see them walking down the hallway, you’re going to act as if they didn’t stab you in the back a thousand times before. Those people who brought so much negativity in your life were there to teach you a lesson, so stop telling yourself you wish you never met them.
Have no expectations when it comes to other people. For all you know, they could be putting on that mask you’ve been wearing all along.
Sometimes having no expectations in life is better than having any expectations at all. Take it day by day and only do the things that make you happy.
Stop trying to have so much control over your life, and just let go. If you don’t have any expectations, you have no disappointments.
The sky's the limit.
