Last night I was out to dinner with a group of friends. I must have been in a chatty mood as I ended up asking everyone if they had begun to think of New Year’s Resolutions, since the New Year is only a couple of weeks away.
If you have been following my blog, you know that I take making resolutions seriously. I monitor my progress on them throughout the year. I choose resolutions for areas of my life that I want to concentrate on to make a change or to investigate and learn. I’ve already set out the 3 areas I plan to concentrate on in 2019: finances, new learning/skill, and good deeds (Judaism). Although I haven’t fleshed any of those out, I do know that they will be the framework for my next year’s growth.
So, imagine my surprise to find that most of the five other people I was with do not make New Year’s Resolutions! A few came up with one or two items, but the others just looked like deer in the headlights, that is stunned!
I know that I am a list-maker…and goal-setter. But, I had kinda thought that my difference was not in the making of the resolutions but rather in the tracking of them all year long. I thought most people at least made New Year Resolutions!
I actually think that most people do make resolutions…to lose weight…to get a better job…to do lots of things. I guess they just do not think about them as an opportunity, like I do, to grow…to better oneself. And, as one of my friends noted, those kind of goal-oriented things are temporary and happen throughout the year.
I have always made New Year’s Resolutions. And, like most people, I have forgotten about them about mid-year. Last year was the first time I sat down to think fully about my life and what I needed…and then worked on it all year. And, as I am much more comfortable with who I am today…well, I plan to keep that trend going.
Feathers of My Mind 