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A Successful New Year’s Resolution Record
Can you believe, that for nearly a decade, I have had a successful New Year’s Resolution every single year? It’s true. Although there was one difficult year that I resolved NOT to take on a resolution, so I’m not sure if that counts? Regardless, I take my resolution seriously every year, and my success is not as difficult as you think. So what’s my secret? There is one key ingredient that I make certain to weave into my resolution: TRUTH.
Key Ingredient: TRUTH
The only way that one can have a truly successful New Year’s Resolution is to create it based on TRUTH. If you don’t take the time to take stock of the honest bits and pieces of your life, then you will kick off the New Year on a foundation much like one built on sand, shifting below whatever you so delicately build. Soon enough, it will fall and you will feel as if you’ve failed.
But really, you didn’t fail. You just mistakenly identified a safe place to build upon without giving it a good, hard, honest look before you started to lay your foundation. Your intention and effort were genuine, it was just one misstep and not a complete failure.
Let’s say that you were following a recipe that called for a cup of sugar. You could call a cup of salt “sugar” until you are blue in the face, and though they may look the same as you add it into the other proper ingredients, the end result will share your lie. On the exterior, you could dazzle everyone with beautiful plating, and swirled sauces atop the dish, but the truth will not lie silent for long. One morsel on the tongue and your lie is exposed. So how do we give our resolution a good and truthful examination before we step into the New Year?
The TRUTH Behind a Resolution
New Year’s resolutions are more like grown-up wishes, aren’t they? “I wish I was ____.” So why not take this as an opportunity to turn our wishes into attainable goals – attainable is the keyword here. The only way to do that is to take a good hard look at what ingredients you are honestly dealing with.
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If you want to be thinner, richer, in a relationship, or even out of a relationship – examine who you are right now and the truth of why you want something else.
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If you want to kick unhealthy habits, look at the truth of why you indulge in them in the first place.
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If you know that you have a challenging year ahead, accept that some moments will suck- but also accept this truth: moments pass.
Life certainly isn’t easy, but isn’t it funny how on January 1st, we are confronted with a thousand quick fixes for all of our problems. Don’t rush it. Don’t hurry through life, glossing over the truth along the way because you’ll never truly get what you deserve. And you, my dear, deserve so very much.
So… just for a moment, before you start wishing to be more of this or less of that, accept the truth of who you are and where you are on your journey. Embrace the truth that right now YOU are incredible just the way you are. Accept that before anything. You’ve arrived at this very moment of truth, and that is the perfect place to start a new year.
Happy New Year to you, my dear friend!
So many good things in this post!
I wonder just how much of the angst with resolutions could be solved by people living with a little more gratitude for what they have? I might be that cup of salt that will never be sugar, but mix me with a little garlic and herbs and I’m the PERFECT thing for that bowl of popcorn! 😀
Absolutely, Kristin! Only once we are truthful about who we really are, can we start to figure out our purpose! Besides, sweet and salty are the perfect compliment to one another, so what a loss it would be if we weren’t given a taste of them at their best!