LJ Idol Season 11, week 1: Resolution

[quiltingdragon]

I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions anymore. I would stick to it thru January if I am lucky. I used to tie myself to this artificial timetable yearly, and spend time at the end of the year castigating myself for once again abandoning the same goals.

Lose Weight (and every year, the number I needed to lose went up).

Read x number of books, including

Comments

[static_abyss]

You are completely right. At some point it comes to you. I'm glad you are ready and I wish you the best of luck.

[rayaso]

I'm so sorry about your mother and your health problems. I thought your last paragraph was wonderful, and I enjoyed the poem.

[murielle]

Every word of this is true. Know, I have lived it, too. We know when we're ready, and then somehow it is easier, inexplicably easier.

So nice to have you back!

[messygorgeous]

What a beautiful message and so true. I hate New Years resolutions! I am with you in that I never kept them. I think you are absolutely right that at some point you stop resolving and start doing when you are ready. I was doing really well with my fitness for a while and then I took a job with a two hour commute and that all went out the window. Six years later, I've got some pounds to lose too! I start a new job, much closer to home, on Nov. 4 and I think then the time for excuses is done! Best of luck to you on your journey!

[unmowngrass]

Haha, in terms of NY resolutions, I think the trick is to find one that you know you're going to stick to without effort, for the purposes of those conversations.

"I'm going to continue recycling my plastic."
"I'm not going to start smoking." Etc.