It’s halfway through January and I am wondering how everyone is doing with those resolutions. I know today at the gym every machine was filled and the stream of people kept flowing the whole time I was there. It’s not certain if that New Years played into the equation but I would suspect so. New Years resolutions add on the pressure. The idea that what you whispered or yelled out (whatever your inebriation level was) on the striking of midnight this 2009 year was to create a change in you….that is a powerful utterance indeed.
However, we think about our resolutions. We even project resolutions. You know we all say, “When January rolls around I am going to start over.” And that allowance let’s us let things slide in our lives. That is a lot of power!
Are resolutions good or bad? I think that they have their purpose and like kindergarten are good fundamentals to getting started in the change in our lives. But instead of being a building block they become this huge weight that we tie around our necks and feel like a failure if we don’t complete them. Like New Year’s Eve itself that is given huge weight to be the “best night of the year” these resolutions we make are filled with portent.
I think that instead of creating a placard of what we actually think we haven’t been doing we should throughout the year give ourselves mini resolutions that are obtainable and achievable. These mini resolutions will allow us to see progress in our life without the humiliation of not accomplishing one huge resolution.
So my idea is to let the spirit of New Years exist throughout the year with mini New Years celebrations and resolutions that slowly move you to the place farther and farther up your evolutionary growth pattern. As you grow your mini resolutions will grow and your life will expand.
