Honesty is the best policy right? Well...this last week has been really crappy! So today I was thinking back over the last week and wondering why I was feeling so blue and then it dawned on me...It was the first week of the new year. " Why would this make a difference you might ask?" Tis the season for new years resolutions and setting goals right? Really, if you ask me, that is just code for picking yourself apart and focusing on all that is wrong, or that you aren't doing well, and how your going to fix it. Now I know that resolutions and goals aren't always this way, but for me the first few weeks of each new year come with the overwhelming feeling that I am failing. Somehow I am just not doing enough of what I should or want to be doing. I am always trying to do better. Everyday I wake up and try to do better. Why should the fact that it is the beginning of a new year make any difference? Why should I beat myself up just because it is a new year? So I have decided that I am out. I am passing on making a list of goals and resolutions. Instead I am going to focus on trying to be a little better each day. Instead of hanging a "goal" over my head I am going to take each day as it comes. Some days will be good and some will be bad, but I refuse to have a "goal" hanging over me making me feel like I am failing. Just typing this makes me feel free of the pressure. I'm out...who is with me?
4 months ago
7 comments:
After much thought for the New Year, I too decided that, I'm OUT!!! Why should I make goals that I KNOW I am just not going to follow......eat better, work out.....Yeah Right. I will be hiding in the shadows of everyone else who would like to keep their goals. Cause I'm not doing it this year. WOW, that really does make you feel better, huh? :)
I haven't made resolutions in years! Hopefully that doesn't make me look too bad, but we are a goal making people aren't we? We don't need no stink'n resolutions!
I'm with ya! Maybe that's been my problem too, the past few days. Thanks for putting it in words!
I make a new resolution every morning so I don't make New Year's ones. I really needed to read this post so thank you for writing it! I have been feeling the "winter blues" the last week and need to take a deep breath :)
Amen! Just trying to be better from one day to the next or even one minute to the next is good enough!
I haven't made resolutions in years either. I just work on what I feel I need to work on at the time. So much less stress.
I made a news years resolution once... and I actually kept it for 3 years... and I haven't made one since, because it didn't really matter to me that I had kept it. It didn't make me a better person, or uplift me. I figure we are always striving to be better people... or we should be... it should be a daily thing... not something that overwhelms us once a year! :) I'm with ya!
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