Hello,
Welcome to my first SoulUnion Blog. Wow! We have so much to talk about and the launching of his first blog for the New Year is so fitting.These blogs are for you first and foremost so let me know how these thoughts touch you by clicking the e-mail address at the end, tell me what’s going on for you and what you would like to talk about. Thank you for being here.
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New Year Resolutions, Choose Wisely
Happy 2012.
Are you ready for some good news? We still have one more Holiday Tradition to enjoy. Well maybe ENJOY is a bit of an exaggeration, so let’s say its more like one more Holiday Tradition to handle; your New Year resolutions.
A popular description of New Year resolutions is a commitment an individual makes on New Year day to achieve one or more healthy, wealthy, wise goals or projects.
But my mother used to say:
A New Year resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
There is an Irish toast that goes:
In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship,
but never in wanting.
So wrap up your New Year resolutions as gifts of friendship to yourself, turn them into an opportunity rather than a chore.
New Year resolutions begin with best intentions, with that hazily clear idea like; What bothersome habit could we give up? Or what cumbersome task could we change? Or what just out of reach shiny new skill could we add to our life to fix everything and make it a perfect world? And then Whamo! We remember. All we have to do is reach into our back pocket, pull out last year’s crumbled NewYear resolutions list. Flatten it out, spruce it up, re-gift the list to yourself and chant the most popular New Year mantra “Om this year I’m gonna do it….Om this year I’m gonna do it …… Om this all has a familiar …… Om Holiday ring to it?
New Year resolutions are like the infamous Holiday Fruit Cakes that keeps resurrecting year after year. They look the same but who would know what they really taste like because we look and forget about them!
Consider this, while you are getting your New Year resolutions together, begin to strengthen your own resolution, your resolve, your vision, your will power to ensure you accomplish whatever you choose to take on. Every New Year we have best intentions when it comes to the idea of change but when we actually have to change then it becomes harder because change requires will power and that is a whole other set of brain dynamics.
Well, I said willpower twice. That is your tip off about what we will talk about next time because taking action to give up old or add new means those New Year resolutions may take a back seat to the everyday stress in your life. If we treat the coming New Year like another milestone to merely hope for change then we are setting ourselves up to slip into the same annual trap unless we engage our mindfulness and will power.
So get out last year’s New Year resolutions. Decide which ones are still beneficial, viable, doable. You are a whole year wiser now so go for it.
Clean off your plate before you get dessert.