The general concept of resolutions is based on the human's desire to be better. To Resolve means that you are setting a goal and are determined to meet it. This, in and of itself, isn't a terrible thing. It is a good thing, in fact. However, we have made the New Year Resolution into this yearly self-flagellation of self-loathing, broken promises and, by mid-March, complete disregards for all those hopes for what we want to become. Or worse yet, we still want to become but we have given up on the hope that we can and are no longer willing to put in all the energy we had on January 1st.
So, this year I am doing unresolutions. I am still aiming to improve myself, but I am not doing it as a traditional New Year's Resolution. I am doing it, finally, after 30+ years of traditional resolutions - lose weight, write a book, be nicer, pray more, etc. I resolve to make good choices rather than just make short term fixes.
Here is what I am doing. MAKING GOOD CHOICES.
HEALTH- Make Good Choices
- 100% Gluten Free diet
- Weight Watchers tracking every day
- Real exercise 3 times per week
- Decrease sugar and increase water
- Send weekly invoices for your company
- Pay monthly tithing
- Extra payments to mortgage, HELOC, credit cards
- Increase retirement contributions
- Spending fast for 1 month each quarter
WISDOM- Learn and grow
- Take a writing class
- Read 12 books
- Practice a foreign language
- Luminosity exercises
- Try at least one new recipe per week
FAITH- Be worthy
- Attend the temple once per month
- Weekly church
- Church choir
- Weekly fasting
- Study Come Follow Me with Will on Sundays
- Morning & Evening prayers
FAMILY & FRIENDS - Be present
- Make time
- Listen
- Serve
In this blog, I hope to track my weekly progress. My hope is that in doing these things, I will make positive changes in my daily routine, and see small and powerful improvements in my life -- without the guilt of having broken resolutions. Come along with me -- we will work together so we don't feel quite so alone and we don't need to feel so bad if we don't make it perfect every day.
Let's get going, eh? Here we go...
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