Happy New Year!
I used to do resolutions, usually “I’m going to lose weight,” but I don’t any more. By not setting resolutions, I don’t beat myself up for a lapse or complete failure of following a resolution. In the past few years it seems like I join a weight loss website or app every January. But it’s not really a resolution. The holidays are finally over and I can focus on my health again. This year, I’m trying to get back with my dietician and continue what I started last August. I gave up late October for the remainder of the year. After talking with family, therapist, and nurse practitioner, I decided that it was too much stress at the beginning of SAD. I think trying to start something on 1/1 that you wouldn’t start later in the year is asking for failure. 1/1 isn’t some magic date for me. It’s just another day.
Is January 1 significant to you? Have you ever kept a resolution? What helped?
My Plucky Life 
Love this post. I actually wrote about it in my journal at some point, about how we set ourselves up for failure with these “resolutions”. This year 01.01. did mean something else to me, as I started the first day of the rest of my life..changing countries..again, and finishing a relationship. So my only resolution now is to heal from that and find myself again, and BE THAT. that’s all.
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