The closing of a year usually brings reflection.
We tend to look back and evaluate, relive, or just remember.
New year resolutions are made…eat healthier, exercise more, lose weight or even find a better job.
They are most often about improving ourselves.
Hmmmm
I don’t make resolutions anymore. They are just promises I make to myself and most remain unfulfilled, just adding more reason to not like me the way I am and another resolution to the list next year.
I resolve to accomplish all my new years resolutions. !!!!
Meh…not happening.
I’m human.
And I don’t like breaking promises.
I do however, reflect each and every morning when I awake to a new God given day.
Taking one day at a time to become a better wife, mother, Lulu, friend and leader.
The only promise I make to myself is to do my best at being decent, loving, caring and helpful each day.
When I lay down at night, I go over my day and how it progressed. Evaluating my words and actions.
Did I do my best?
How can I make tomorrow better?
I reflect each day so my tomorrows are better.
Daily, not yearly.
It’s too easy to get caught in the trap of thinking how terrible your year was. You gained weight, your relationship is on the rocks, you didn’t finish that project, and the list goes on.
It can be pretty depressing.
All those things you look at as failures staring you in the face all at once and you think, new year, new attitude, my new years resolution is…….yada yada yada
If you have to make a new years resolution, let it be this….
“I will love me as I am. I will make each day better than the last. I will be kind, compassionate, and be the best version of myself, each and every day.”
☕ here’s to the new year, new attitude, new outlook, and the promise of a new love for yourself.
Lorene