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RESOLVED —
Are New Year Resolutions worth the time?
IT’S a dance many of us do every year. It’s like gathering at the “same Bat Time and the same Bat Station.”
The cause is not celebration, and it is rarely anything close to goal planning, but a flimsy mixture of thoughts about your failures and shortcomings for the year and what to do if anything for the next.
It often takes the shape of something like, I’ve gained weight in spite of dieting, I resolve not to do that again. I’m definitely going to do better in 2022. While laudable, it doesn’t address how or why your dieting was fell flat on its ass.
The same with, I drink too much coffee and I need to stop or cut back next year? Why do you want to cut back? Caffeine keeping you up at night? Makes your heart feel funny? How much is too much? What am I going to do, read labels and cut out anything with caffeine? Am I just going to have a cup in the morning and then turn off the juice for the day? Or maybe it’s money and you need to break the Starbucks habit that is hitting you at roughly $4 a wack. Whatever the motive is it needs to be clear. Whatever the sacrifice is it needs to be clear. The reason you are making whatever change you are making has got to have staying power in your psyche so that with each temptation, your mind knows why and what you are going to do.
