So I'm starting a blog..

Why? Because I think a lot. Whether or not someone cares what I think, well, we will have to wait and see.

Today I am thinking about Resolutions and just why people make them. The New Year was 10 days ago and, I think that I can safely say 10-15 people that I know have confessed that they have already failed to keep a resolution. Well whats the point then? 10 days, I mean if we can't last 10 days how do we expect to last an entire year? The most troubling part is that resolutions aren't really about lasting a year they are actually about making a change that lasts a lifetime. Well are we being too unrealistic? Are new years resolutions supposed to be something that we really can't or don't want to accomplish. What we really need to do is stop making new years resolutions in a spur of the moment this is what I think type of way. I mean, we all want to lose weight and stop smoking and cherish moments BUT!!! those aren't really plans. Plans involve much more thinking than that. Like a resolution to go to a cycle class at the gym every Monday and Wednesday morning at 10am. That's a plan and if you know there is a cycle class at that time on those days and you happen to have it off well then all you have to do is commit to it. When we say lose weight that can be done in a million ways and we can put it off because we have no times, no dates, and NO PLAN. How can we expect ourselves to do something if we have no details?

So this is what I propose: take whatever your new years resolution was and create a real plan on how you are going to do it. Use dates, times, locations, and as many details as possible. People don't just change their lives overnight. We are creatures of habit and sometimes that means bad habit. So if your resolution is to eat less fast food then plan a grocery list and some recipes for the next couple of weeks. If your new years resolution is to volunteer more of your time to a good cause, then find the cause and call them up and set up times that you can come in. Your new years resolution should have a thought process behind it.

So go out there, set it up, and do it!