For my first post of the year, I would like to make a confession. I always had the uneasy feeling that New Year's resolutions were merely "to do list" that lasted much longer than the month of January. However, I do not like the New Year's resolutions nor the to do list. That is said.
Now, what bothers me with these resolutions, it is firstly that they change every year as if a year was a magical cycle of personal achievement, and secondly that it imprison us from the first day of the year in a straitjacket of stress (and often bad conscience when you do not meet our resolutions).
So I set the problem. No more resolutions! I accept the resolutions of 10 years, or that of the present moment. I chose the latter, those that allow me to constantly tell me: yes, I feel like it or not, this I do not do it. It does not mean that I am not long-term projects (I already know where I'll be for Christmas 2011!) But it is not a resolution.
The big advantage of this system is that it gives me the right to change its mind without warning. For example, I decided that from today, I'll double my reading rate and either read one book a week but twice. If after two months I see that it is too restrictive, I change my mind and decided to return to one. It is only my opinion. I do not bowl anyone with my resolutions and especially I'm not complaining that I do hast not required, and meanwhile I read 8 books more ...
What I've realized since I lost loved ones, is that nothing is more important than the emotions of the moment. If you know how to live your life, you will not need resolutions for next year. So me, my resolution early this year never changes: it is to live today as if this year was the last.
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