Brand New Year!
Happy 2007...call me jaded (Jaded! Jaded! Mere's Jaded!!), but the concept a fresh start on January 1 is kind of lost on me. Things can change. I believe that. However, if you're only changing because of the day on the calendar, I don't really think that's a reason/motivator large enough to make the change stick. Maybe it is for some people, but for me, I need more. If my doctor said, "Jaded, if you don't lose 30 lbs in the next 6 months, you're going to die," then I would change. The question is figuring out what threat between January 1st and death is sufficient motivation to make a change real.
I think I've watched too many episodes of Oprah over my little Christmas vacation.
Happy 2007...call me jaded (Jaded! Jaded! Mere's Jaded!!), but the concept a fresh start on January 1 is kind of lost on me. Things can change. I believe that. However, if you're only changing because of the day on the calendar, I don't really think that's a reason/motivator large enough to make the change stick. Maybe it is for some people, but for me, I need more. If my doctor said, "Jaded, if you don't lose 30 lbs in the next 6 months, you're going to die," then I would change. The question is figuring out what threat between January 1st and death is sufficient motivation to make a change real.
I think I've watched too many episodes of Oprah over my little Christmas vacation.
posted by mere | 1:23 PM
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I'm with you. I decided around Dec. 28 to not make any resolutions this year. Why is it that Jan. 1 comes around, and everyone decides then what they're going to do for the coming year (or waits until then to start). My new philosophy is to make resolutions when I feel they're necessary (like in July when I decided to lose 25 lbs), and not when the calendar dictates.
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