So it’s a brand new year. 2012 is upon us and now everyone usually attempts to take stock in what they need to change. Most don’t succeed in changing anything but at least I suppose they recognize what changes they should make. Some make valiant attempts to make changes that sometimes last a month or two. I guess I fall in the some category most of the time….does that make sense? Why am I asking you? It’s not as if I’m going to get an answer. Who am I talking to anyway?
OK so back to the topic; New Year’s resolutions. I wonder when they started to become fashionable. I did a little research but found little in the way of historical data about the origins of New Year’s resolutions however it certainly sounds like something our so called progressive culture has adopted. Here are the five steps listed to making successful resolutions:
1. Make it specific.
2. Make it realistic.
3. Make it known.
4. Make it measurable by time.
5. Make it fun and rewarding.
These sound like reasonable steps. It would seem that if you follow these guidelines you can achieve your resolutions. My fundamental problem is after reading and re-reading these steps I pretty much have decided I will fail. I’m sorry, that may not be completely true, but that sure looks like a lot of work. One interesting tidbit I read was that people who have had success in the past at sticking to resolutions have about an 80% chance of repeating their success. One thing that concerns me about that fact is I can’t even REMEMBER what last year’s resolutions were. That doesn’t seem to bode well at my success this year.
So I must look at the usual list of suspects in my resolutionary quest. (New word there….kind of slick don’t you think?) There I go again asking questions to no one. The list is weight loss, drink less coffee, exercise more, fix basically everything on our house and oh did I mention weight loss? I am anticipating with great disdain the onslaught of fitness center commercials as well as weight loss miracle pill commercials. If you have it and there is a pill for it, it would seem many Americans will buy it. I have a weight loss pill I want to market. It is a pill you hold between your teeth that takes about 10 hours to dissolve. That should just about do it. The drink less coffee resolution should not be as difficult although I did get one of those K Cup machines for Christmas and it is great so that may put the Kibosh on the whole coffee reduction. Exercise more and weight loss kind of dovetail so although I haven’t been as successful in the past I really am looking at and incidentally, have made a few changes even in 2011. The house…..ah yes the house. Well it is a work in progress and will be for some time. To call this a resolution is really a misrepresentation. It should be more a shuffling of priorities. It is not something I should try to change ……more so something I absolutely MUST work on.
I am now officially done talking about this. My fervent hope is that all of you who read this do indeed have a successful 2012 and if that includes making some changes that you can stick with and live by you are likely ahead of 90% of the rest of us!
