Here it is! A new year, a new you. Or so it is said. It appears that the start of a new year is a good time to do away with some or all of your bad habits. I must disagree. If one were to agree with the start of a new you with the new year, then one would have to be sincere in their endeavors. So many New Year resolutions, so few days in the year.
I don’t know who came up with this slogan, but…oh, well. Stop trying to make that New Year, New You thing happen. It ain’t going to happen this year. Come to 11:59 New Year’s Eve, as you sit scrolling on your iPhone and the clock strikes midnight, come 12:01; you are still going to be sitting on your couch scrolling to see how many others are posting their resolutions about not spending time on the iPhone scrolling and trolling.
The gym on Jan. 1 will look like an invasion of the bodysnatchers. By Jan. 2, it will be the Sahara Desert with a camel or two. If you are going to do a resolution, then do a resolution you will stick with during the year. My resolution is to eat more chocolate. It can be dark chocolate. It’s said that dark chocolate is good for you, so eating more of it will make you way better. See, this is a resolution that I know I will not break. I am sincere about my endeavor to eat more chocolate.
.Why start with the New Year resolutions when there are too many holidays and parties between January 1 and December 31?
Instead of starting in January, let’s start in the spring. I mean, we all do spring cleaning in our homes each year, right? Nope. But it would be a good alternative! Cleaning the window panes of our lives and sweeping out the old cobwebs of bad habits would make the transition to that new you much easier.
You may see summer as the best time. After all, you will be lying on the beach soaking up the rays with a cold drink of tea and wistfully thinking of everything that could be washed away in your life. So go take a dip in the ocean, wash away the slush in your life and call it a day.
Ah, but why not fall when the leaves turn and things are dormant? Just as the leaves fall from the trees, so should your old bad habits and look forward to that new you in the spring. Let’s skip winter since that New Year’s thing is there.
.What if I told you that you don’t have to wait till the new year to change? Gasp! Let’s face it: there is no magical time when your resolution will work or when it is to be. Why wait? If you have habits that you want to get rid of in your life, then do it now.
1 Timothy 4:8 - “For bodi- ly exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.”
