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This is NOT a New Year's Resolution - Miss Known
No, I’m not joking. You read that right. Today, I’m not going to talk about my resolutions for 2018. I’ve realised for the past few years that New Year’s resolutions don’t work with me. And I’m not even talking about start working on my goals in January and by February forgot about them, most of the times, I don’t even get to start. I’m lazy and procrastination is my favourite hobby so a list of things to do isn’t a big inspiration to get my a** of the couch. The entire point of making a New Year’s resolutions is to change habits, to get better at something or change something in your life that isn’t working. But do you really need to write down a list of things to change or do you need to change them? It was Allen Sauders (and John Lennon) that said Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. So why plan? Why write down a list of things to change? How about discovering the next step in your life and concentrate on that? 2017 is over we are already leaving in 2018 and nothing has changed. The days are the same, the weather is still crazy, our lives are the same, we just write a different number. So why limit our individual changes to a list made on the first day of the year? I’m sure by the end of it your thoughts will be different, your mind will be focusing on different problems. It’s better to focus on a problem at a time. If I want to travel more today is a great day do see prices, plan a trip, gather a group of friends… Or if I want to lose that extra weight today is the best day to workout. Or maybe to get into yoga or meditation. The only thing that can stop ourselves are the limitations that we put in ourselves – this is a quote from Napoleon Hill. Last year, I wrote a New Years resolution post. Only in September when I was changing my former blog to this one, I discover I had done those resolutions. And I kept that post just to remember myself to revisit it one year after. I made 8 resolutions and accomplish 3-ish of them. Reading back what I wrote at the beginning of the year, gives me a...
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