Resolve

Welcome to 2011, a new decade. I’m excited. I’m looking forward to a new year, a new opportunity, a new season of life. It’s a time for new beginnings, new events, and new chances. However, what it is not time for, is resolutions.

I am against making New Year’s resolutions. Always have been, always will be. I don’t see the need to make this declaration of change at the start of the New Year. To me, if you’re set on making changes in your life, like losing weight, getting a job, having children, or writing a book, why did you have to wait till the New Year to do it? Why couldn’t you do it last year?

Then there are the other things that people decide will be different in this coming year like, “I’ll be nicer to people,” or “I’ll stop procrastinating.” I don’t get it. I don’t understand how the power of the year changing makes it all right to make serious changes in your life? Why did you wait? Why couldn’t you just make these changes when you first thought of them?

That brings up the other question, why didn’t you think of them before? What made New Year’s Eve so powerful that you couldn’t think of these important things in the previous year? I get that you want to make changes, and I applaud that. I am too am in the process of making changes in my life. The only difference was I didn’t wait till the clock stuck midnight on January 1st to enact those changes.

I believe that if it’s important, then you shouldn’t wait for a date on the calendar, you should do it right away. You should make the impact that you desire immediately. I resolve that I will not make any declaration this year to be done in the future. If I need to do something, and or make changes, the moment I think of it, is the moment I will start doing it.

I don’t want to offend people who take the time to make their resolutions. If it’s something you’ve done for years and look forward to, go for it. Maybe you need to dedicate yourself to a fresh idea and give yourself a time table so that you can build up your courage to make this change in your life. That makes sense to me. But, I want you to know that you already have the courage. You’re admitting that you want to change something or make things better, or bottom line, become a better person. You don’t need the change of a calendar to make this change. Do it now, do it when you realize it. Resolve to be a better person now, and not to wait until 2012. No need for it. You can do it.

Until next time
P