Six weeks ago, you were in a post-holiday haze. You felt invincible. The New Year meant a new you, and you set some resolutions for yourself that seemed optimistic, or even idealistic, but absolutely, positively achievable… as long as you could maintain that natural high.
Then reality set in. You went back to work, and your attentions were diverted. Your resolve was redirected toward accomplishing the mundane, rather than the exquisite. Soon, your challenges became excuses. Who can stick to a diet during the Super Bowl? Who can exercise during a blizzard?
Good News: The Calendar Loves You Again
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day, and with its passing comes a new horizon: nothingness. There’s nothing important on the American calendar for months now, which gives you a whole new lease on life — and on your resolutions, which, although dusty and neglected, are no less relevant today than they were when you created them six weeks ago.
Don’t wait for your birthday to “start over” (again). Don’t whittle your list down to “just” two or three resolutions (yet). And don’t push it all aside and vow to “do it right next year.” Check your calendar: we’re barely 1/8 of the way through the year. The worst of winter is behind us, spring is right around the corner, clocks will soon jump ahead one hour and daylight will abound.
Whatever you’ve slacked off or fallen behind on, you can catch up with now. Because you have no other obligations, nothing to save up for, nothing to distract you. Hell, if you’re Catholic, you even have the added bonus of Lent, which begins this week and which reminds us all that mid-March is a wonderful time to burnish your willpower, now that all the snow and seasonal affective disorder is on the wane.
Besides, don’t you want a head-start on all your self-improvement goals before Saint Patrick’s Day steamrolls you in a Dionysian frenzy?
Go ahead, unroll those crumpled resolutions. The year is still young.
Tags: common sense, inspiration, perception, personal, Sociology
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Ian M Rountree
