The Anti-Resolutions Post

Enough already with all of the resolutions posts. We know, we know! Lose weight, be nicer, eat better, sleep more, blah blah blah. My own resolutions were so boring that I abandoned them halfway through to go and catch up on my twitter feed. Sure you can go ahead and view the start of the new year as the perfect opportunity to review your life and think about everything you want to change….jump right on in with all of the other lemmings and churn out another list that will be abandoned midway through January.

OR

You can take my approach and just view tomorrow as a Wednesday…a Wednesday where I get a free pass from the office, but otherwise just another 24 hours of the same old, same old. The world isn’t going to end. My life isn’t going to change. I will just be one more day along this little journey we call life.

When you look at Jan 1 from that perspective, it makes you start to wonder,

Why do we waste so much time and energy waiting for that magical day to come along and give us permission to kickstart the changes we knew we needed to make weeks earlier?

If your pants don’t fit, waiting until Jan 1 to go the gym isn’t going to make them fit any sooner or better. If you are yelling nonstop at your kids or fighting with your husband, I am sure they would appreciate it if you made that change as soon as you realised your crap behaviour rather than waiting for the calendar to turn. I can’t think of one damn thing I would want to change in my life that would make sense to put on hold until Wednesday.

How about if we all just resolve to stop making resolutions, or as they should be known – excuses to put off making changes you need to make today. How about if we got up off of our collective lazy asses and got to work on making our lives better asap.

For the love of all that is good in this world, please step away from the notepad today. Take the five minutes or hour or entire day you would spend drafting up the perfect list of resolutions and instead get to work on one of them. Any of them! And then keep that up for the rest of the year. If you do, you just might finally find yourself looking back on a year with great satisfaction for what you have achieved.