Resolving Not to Make a Resolution This Year

Ugh, it’s here.

New Year’s Eve.

I don’t know why I’m so surprised. It arrives each and every year and forces me to look back and reflect on the year that was lived.

And each and every year (usually while I’m watching some “Year in Review” program) I inevitably think to myself, “Where does the time go?”

And right on cue, the panic sets in.

I start to count through a mental inventory of all the things I did not “achieve” -- loosing those extra 5 pounds, saving that extra $100, climbing the Mt. Everest (not that I ever planned to do that—but I do know friends who have…which makes me feel guilty that I haven’t even tried…)

This year, however, I had an epiphany (actually, it wasn’t as much an epiphany as it was a second glass of wine). I came to the conclusion that New Year’s Eve is simply one big guilt trip that we all just have to contend with each and every year.

Resolving Not to Make a Resolution

So this year, I’ve decided not to make another useless guilt-infested New Year’s Resolution. Yes, one could say I resolve not to make a resolution.

In fact, I’m not going to change my life at all—I’m simply going to start living it—the good, the bad and the ugly. After all, wasn’t it John Lennon who famously said, “Life is What Happens When You Are Busy Making Plans.”

Yup, it's time to stop all the "planning" and start working with what I got. And that’s what I intend to do.

No more guilt.

No more lofty unattainable resolutions.

It’s time to simply embrace whatever life throws at you and try to make the most out of it. So that’s what I intend to do.

We’ll see where I end up next year.