The thing about New Year's Resolutions is that a year always seems like the wrong time-frame for a truly effective goal. For example, you want to be more patient and less easily provoked this year? Awesome, but why only for a year? Isn't that more of a life long goal? And if you are using this year just as a sort of measuring device for that goal, well, you can bet you'll forget if you don't break it down into more manageable bites of time. Or, let's say you want to get a gym membership. Umm...if that takes you a whole year to do, you are using the wrong gym. In general, signing up for a membership takes about half an hour or less. Now, they'll take money directly from your bank account every month for a year (at least) but that's more a goal for them than for you, isn't it? I like my goals to fit into one of three categories: weekly, monthly, and lifely (so totally a word, right?). But, if you're the type to set a New Year Resolution, well, I won't look down on you for it. (I'll laugh at you behind your back, for sure, but look down? Never.)
And for the time being, here is my resolution, which I like to think of as a lifely goal:
Eat more fresh produce.
What, you were expecting something deeper and more pensive? Vegetables are the fa-shizzle people. The fa-shizzle.
1 comment:
I'm with you there! I don't believe in resolution because more often than not, the resolutions change from being resolved to dissolved by the end of January. We share the same resolve to eat more produce!
Post a Comment