With every new year comes the pressure to come up with a resolution, and to start it on the 1st of January, the day of a fresh start. My guess is that most resolutions are forgotten before January ends, and few are life-changing. By December 31st I am left searching my old journals to figure out what I resolved the year before… proof that I don’t hold onto the resolution all year long.
My most successful resolutions have actually occurred randomly in the year, and not at the start of the year, just when I suddenly felt motivated to make a change. Like when I resolved to eat vegan – that lasted 4 months which in the world of my resolutions, was a very nice run! Or when I resolved to keep a perpetually clean and tidy house that could always welcome visitors – that lasted at least 2 months. My resolution to monitor my finances is still going pretty well and I first downloaded YNAB (YouNeedABudget: budgeting software) in September.
So, as I sat here yesterday, wondering what I should resolve for 2012, I decided I didn’t even want to see what last year’s resolutions were because they obviously weren’t important if I didn’t remember them.
In 2012, I resolve to not resolve anything at all. 2012 is in God’s hands.
