Dear half arsed new years resolutioners10/7/2023 ![]() If 2020 has taught me anything, it is an importance of appreciating what you do have, whether that is family, friends, those you can turn to for support and, dare I say it, the importance of being able to continue to work. There can also be a tendency to focus on things we cannot control. In society today, it is easy to focus on the negatives, and a lot of press coverage focuses on those things as well. However, we can all be thankful for the positives in our lives. However, this year is different, so I wanted to write about something different.Īs I began this article, I focussed on the doom and gloom surrounding us. ![]() It may also be that you decide to make a resolution to put in place a new Will or Lasting Power of Attorney getting your affairs in order is something that I have written about on many occasions before. This might be “to eat more healthfully” or “to exercise more”. The beginning of a New Year can also be a time when people make resolutions about what they intend to achieve in the coming months. ![]() However, as one of life’s optimists, I prefer to focus on the positives, and see the glass as being half full. It would be easy to focus on all the negatives that impact our everyday life at this time. The third national lockdown has been introduced. Richard Horwood considers, that in this ever changing time of uncertainty, even our New Year resolutions will be different. The last of these will help you if one of your other resolutions happens to be “quit my job.Different Resolutions For a Different New Year? Instead, choose an activity that you can more easily integrate into your daily activities, like resolving to bike to work, join a sports league, or doing jumping jacks on your boss’s desk. Gyms can make a healthy profit from new memberships in January that go unused later in the year. The problem is joining a gym or buying the vibrate your tummy-sizer alone is not going to do anything except make your wallet lighter. You just have to have a credit card and be willing to use it. OK, this is a resolution that’s fairly easy to keep. Join a gym or get some type of exercise equipment. Yeah, this is going to end well.īottom line: don’t try to be someone else, unless, of course, it’s Baby Yoda. Gee, what would be great for your self-confidence and feeling of self-worth? How about trying to be someone completely different? How about aiming to be someone whom you don’t even know and who doesn’t know you? Oh, and try to do it without the same resources, helpers, make-up, air brushing, and CGI that he or she has. Have a body like or be like (insert name of celebrity). Start modestly and raise your goals only after you’ve achieved your initial ones.ĥ. Or how about “run a mile without crawling and sobbing”? Or even, “run.” If you make a goal too unrealistic, chances are you will get frustrated and just quit. “Complete one” may be a little more realistic. If the only running that you do now is to the bathroom, don’t resolve to “win a marathon” this year. Instead, set more realistic short-term goals, ones that fit you and your current situation. That doesn’t mean that you should just give up and flood your mouth with Cheese Whiz. There are limits to what you can do based on your innate talents, abilities, circumstances, and available time. “You can do anything you set your mind to” is how the saying goes, right? Wrong. Become an Olympic Gold Medalist, turn into Captain Marvel, exercise four hours a day, or anything that is just not attainable for you. Try resolutions like “I will be open to dating a wider range of people” or “I will no longer insist that my significant other looks like one of the Avengers” or “I will try to shower regularly.”Ħ. Replace such resolutions with something that you can instead control, namely yourself. Remember what Morpheus said in The Matrix about free will. Don’t make resolutions that are beyond your control or make you believe that you have control when you really don’t or shouldn’t. These resolutions all fall into the category of “requires someone else to consent to fulfill.” Unless you are making a joint resolution with someone else who willingly agrees with you, you would be missing at least one half of puzzle here, or more than that, depending on what happens to be your thing. ![]() Have more sex, get a significant other, or get married.
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