New Year’s Resolution

I, like many, used to get caught up in making New Year’s resolutions (NYR) which are often dead on arrival. Such dead-on-arrival resolutions most often include healthy eating, exercising more, saving more/managing finances better, being more intentional and mindful about others and our relationships, etc. Though these resolutions didn’t work the prior year(s), we always resolve to do better only to fall back into the monotonous rhythm.
We always have a good heart to do good, and even better, every year. But, at the end of the year taking stock (The State of Me) we realize that we were no better than how we started.

Could it be a bandwagon effect that we just feel compelled to because everyone else is doing so? Or are we just trying too hard? 🤔

Though I have since stopped making any more NYR, I still believe in writing those plans and visions down. Like a vision board which my daughters make dedicatedly every year, it’s always better to visualize them than having them in your heads. More so, as Kent Matsueda once said, “a short pencil is better than the longest memory,” so are those goals, visions, and plans a lot sensible and meaningful writing them down.

You are the

Having said that however I was reminded (by one I’ll only refer to as PDF) that, this year, and I’d add for subsequent years, I am the plan, the goal, and the vision. Ponder on that for a moment.

Another reminder is that the problem with the resolutions vanishing into obscurity is because we did not commit them to God.

So, if I am the Plan and I commit myself to God, He is faithful to ensure my success. 🤔

This Year 2024,

I wish you happiness, peace, and joy knowing that you are the Plan, the Goal, the Vision, and the Resolution. And if you commit yourself to God, You (and all that concerns you) will succeed.

What a relief. Let’s try that for a change.

Happy New Year to you.