Happy New Year!!! Bet you have already been thinking of a New Year's Resolution or two. Most people have! Maybe you have even been waiting for Jan. 1 just so you can "start" working toward that resolution. Well, I have a new philosophy this year...
You can't break what you never make!
Now, at a glance, this sounds very negative, right? It sounds like I think it isn't worth even having a goal to begin with. It isn't that. But honestly, how many people keep a resolution? How quickly do those goals (which are usually so grand and unattainable anyway) get put on the backburner or old habits take back over? I see it all of the time... And it leads then to a feeling of failure. I know! I've been there every other year! But not this year...
I knew a month or so ago what my goals for 2011 were. Most of did! I decided that anything worth doing is worth doing NOW. Waiting for some silly date makes it seem like that goal really isn't that important. "I'll start next Monday." "I'll start January 1." "I'll do that in a few years." "I'll do that someday."
Those all sound silly and shallow. Instead, if I want something (and I usually want it RIGHT NOW), the best time to start is the moment it enters my mind. So I became aware that I had packed back on 6 of those miserable pounds I had worked to get off earlier in 2010 (via the dreaded monster most of us call the scale). I immediately started making those healthier changes: smaller portions, more fruits and veggies, working out again, and less of those blasted candy cane kisses!
Then on December 21 I went back to my old friend. Weight Watchers.
I could have waited until January 1. I'm sure my next meeting will be packed! In the meantime, those members will have been stuffing themselves silly of Christmas and the New Year as a final farewell to that "old" life. And believe me when I say I want us all to be successful. I just know the resolution route is not for me anymore.
