Ok, so it’s New Year’s resolution time…you know the promises you make to yourself in a rush of champagne-inspired euphoria in the middle of the night that you then break when the hangover sets in and January just seems too damn long.
Since I don’t smoke and I already go work out at my gym regularly, those two resolutions are automatically moot. And aren’t those two the standard New Year’s resolutions for a large majority of the population? “Quit smoking”, “Get fit”?
Therefore, this year I have a twist on the theme: The anti-resolution. I have decided to make resolutions about things I will NOT do in 2011. A lot of thought went into these and if you think this is easy – to NOT do something as opposed to doing something – then you are dead wrong. It will take a lot of willpower to change certain behavior patterns that I have spent the past year (and more) practicing.
But those who know me also know that willpower is something I do have a fair bit of.
So here they are:
- I will not invest in relationships with other humans that are a waste of time, not good for me, and do not give me something back.
- I will not adhere to routine, custom, tradition, “how it’s always been” if there is a better way that’s outside of my comfort zone.
- I will not be engaged in the same mind-numbing work at the end of 2011 as at the beginning.
- I will not lie to anyone except my boss and my soon-to-be-ex-sister-in-law.
- I will not hate anyone more than my boss and my soon-to-be-ex-sister-in-law.
- I will not take the yummy-looking bait, when offered it.
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Happy New Year, folks. Hoping 2011 will smile upon you too.
Evelynn Starr 