New Year; Fresh Start
2017 has gone and 2018 is here and fresh. (And for many of
us brutally cold.)
The New Year tradition is to
start fresh. To make resolutions that hopefully will hold out through the
year (or at least through the first month of the year.) Though I have
nothing against resolutions, I didn't make any formal ones this year. I
plan to continue on working towards a "goal weight" by eating
"better" (healthier?) and continuing to exercise regularly. (I
will freely admit that I gave up all semblance of weight watching during the
week of Christmas. To be honest I pretty much gave it up the Friday
before when I match batches and batches of my traditional chocolate cinnamon
sugar cookies. If there is one thing I have learned it is that if I make
the cookies I WILL eat the cookies without stopping until the jar is at last
empty. Which means I shouldn't make them at all. But since I
did...well, reality returns tomorrow with the advent of a school and work week
and along with it will be my dedication to taking those pounds off and
maintaining a healthier lifestyle. )
I also want to continue on the
path of being a more compassionate and less judgmental person
(https://bfthsboringblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/dont-say-merry-christmas-and-other-year.html).
I have found that I can talk the talk, but it is so much harder to walk the
walk. It is perhaps time for me to come up with a method of reminding
myself of such. Not easy at all. Gentle reminders from friends and
family MIGHT help...or I just might snap and become what I am trying to move
away from. (Any thoughts on how to better do this are always
appreciated.)
The near year is the perfect
time to start anew. To work towards being a better person. (The
definition of which depends completely up to the individual.) But it doesn't
have to be that regimented; with each day we have the opportunity to start
fresh. There is nothing that locks us in to only "starting out"
on a goal on the first of the year, the first of the month or the first of the
week. Each day gives us opportunity. Truth be told, every minute of
every single day we have the opportunity to BE better; to change for the
better. All it takes is the resolve and the self-resolution to
change.
Sounds easy, but it is
not. Becoming the people we want to be is a life long journey.
Scrooge may wake up one Christmas morning a completely changed person, but for
most of us that's not a reality...or at least not a long term one. Taking
a new path or changing course is a long and often slow process. Not
unlike weight loss which does not happen overnight, but is a slow, and sometimes
painstaking process.
So if you do make any
resolutions for this New Year or any time, may your resolution be to stick to
it. To let the process be a process. And when you slide off the
path of good intentions (as we all do; it's called being HUMAN), to accept the
slip with grace and find your way back.
Here's to 2018!
Resolution or no, the year can be a great one IF we want it to be. IF we
plan it to be. If we work with what life has in store for us with courage
and grace. Then 2018 WILL be a Happy New Year!
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