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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
10:35:00 AM EST
Feeling Chillin'
Hearing "the unwinding cable car" by anberlin
I've
always found it odd that we make such a big deal of January 1 each
year. A new year, a new beginning. Yet, just exactly what changed
except the rolling over of the clock from 11:59 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.? We
hear others speak of resolutions: lose weight, stop smoking, start
exercising. We might make a resolution or two ourselves - I know I
have in the past, and even when I don't vocalize it, I'm thinking in
the back of my head:
"This year, I'm gonna......(fill in the blank)"
And yet...none of my resolutions usually stick. At least not for any great length of time. I used to really beat myself up about my lack of commitment to my resolutions, but over time as I've gotten older I've given myself permission to abandon them. Not because I think they aren't important, but because I think resolutions made simply for the sake of making them are not worth beating myself up over.
All of that said, I did have a few rolling around in the back of my head as the end of 2007 approached. One of the biggies was to start exercising - mainly getting on the treadmill at least 3 times a week. A very do-able resolution except for the fact that here we are on January 9th, 2008 and I have yet to make the LENGTHY trip to the basement and fire up the beast. But that's okay, I tell myself, because I can always start...tomorrow. Maybe....
The point I think I'm trying to make (but seem to be having a hard time making) is that resolutions shouldn't be saved for January 1. I've decided that, if necessary, I will make a resolution every single morning. Whether it be to finally get on that treadmill, develop better eating habits, find a new church, stop procrastinating, be kinder to people who irritate me, start fixing better meals for my family, or simply to allow others to see Christ in me, I can make a new resolution each and every day.
And more importantly, I can stop beating myself up when I fail to follow through, because tomorrow is a brand new day and holds infinite possibilites for resolutions to be fulfilled.
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10:35:00 AM EST
Feeling Chillin'
Hearing "the unwinding cable car" by anberlin
Today I resolve to...
"This year, I'm gonna......(fill in the blank)"
And yet...none of my resolutions usually stick. At least not for any great length of time. I used to really beat myself up about my lack of commitment to my resolutions, but over time as I've gotten older I've given myself permission to abandon them. Not because I think they aren't important, but because I think resolutions made simply for the sake of making them are not worth beating myself up over.
All of that said, I did have a few rolling around in the back of my head as the end of 2007 approached. One of the biggies was to start exercising - mainly getting on the treadmill at least 3 times a week. A very do-able resolution except for the fact that here we are on January 9th, 2008 and I have yet to make the LENGTHY trip to the basement and fire up the beast. But that's okay, I tell myself, because I can always start...tomorrow. Maybe....
The point I think I'm trying to make (but seem to be having a hard time making) is that resolutions shouldn't be saved for January 1. I've decided that, if necessary, I will make a resolution every single morning. Whether it be to finally get on that treadmill, develop better eating habits, find a new church, stop procrastinating, be kinder to people who irritate me, start fixing better meals for my family, or simply to allow others to see Christ in me, I can make a new resolution each and every day.
And more importantly, I can stop beating myself up when I fail to follow through, because tomorrow is a brand new day and holds infinite possibilites for resolutions to be fulfilled.
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1/13/08 11:04 PM
Hope everything is going well in your life... okay here... getting bigger... LOL
LYLAS,
Mel