I Resolve

I know it's been  a while since I've posted, but I've vowed to do a lot better this year.  And this post is about just that, vows for the new year, more widely known as New Year's resolutions.




The last few days of December are filled with people making lists, typing 1, 5, or 10-year plans, and updating their vision boards.  Inevitably, getting in shape or losing weight is at the top of most of those lists.  Just ask the membership counselor at any gym.

But why do we make these resolutions at all at the beginning of the year?  It doesn't make much sense.

Allow me to propose a few scenarios:

#1

A young woman sits at home with her three-year old daughter on a lovely afternoon in October..  The daughter approaches her mother and says, "Mommy, I'm hungry."  No response.  The little girl tugs on her skirt and with more desperation laments, "Mommy, I'm soooo hungry."  The mother looks down at her starving little girl and smiles. 

"Hold on, baby."  She gets up and walks to the kitchen.  She opens a drawer and pulls out a piece of paper and a pen.  As she scribbles onto the paper, she looks at her daughter and says, "I know you need to eat.  I'm gonna make sure I start feeding you at the beginning of the year."

#2

A bachelor, let's call him Joe, sits in his apartment watching ESPN .  Joe is a bit of a Renaissance man, therefore he has prepared a meal for himself: fettuccine with a seafood alfredo sauce.  After the delicious dinner, he falls asleep watching the game.  When he awakens he rushes out to work.  When he arrives home that afternoon and opens his front door, he is greeted by the wonderful smell of all the preparation of last night's dinner that he forgot to take out.  What does he do?  Does he immediately take out the trash and douse his with Febreeze?  No.  He goes to his vision board and looks at a picture of a pristine kitchen that he cut out of Better Homes and Garden and thinks "January 1st...January 1st."

My point is - if you know that there is a change you need or want to make in your life, you should start working the very moment you realize it.  Imagine the progress you can make between the time you you know the changes you want to make and the beginning of the year. 

There is truly no time like the present.

So, I resolve to better myself sooner rather than later.

Happy New Year!
(When is it too late to say Happy New Year?  I'm thinking after January 4th.  So, I take it back.)

Happy New Year! 

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