Resolutions

The new year seem to always be the time people like to stop, look back and recollect all the things that have happened over the last 365 days. It’s also a time where a lot of us like to make resolutions, to try and spend the next 365 days in a better way than the previous.

Actually, the silly thing about new year resolutions are that you don’t really need the new year before you can make a resolution. A resolution can be made at anytime and anywhere. All a person really needs to do, is make a silent promise to themselves that from that day forth, they will start doing things differently… to make a change in their life from NOW onwards.

The trouble with new years resolutions is that it is often made by saying that from TOMORROW onwards, I will…(fill in the blank). We always know that there are things about our life we want to correct.. but in truth, we’re actually too comfortable with how we are now to do anything about it, hence our resolution for tomorrow. And when tomorrow we fail to carry out that resolution, we say tomorrow, then tomorrow, then eventually, next year.

Until something happens to us, until something big and life changing happens, we seldom ever to set our plans in motion… we just sit there and wait… saying we’re waiting for the ‘right time’ when in fact, we’re just waiting for disaster to strike before being forced into a decision. By which time, it’s too little too late.

And that’s the thing too isn’t it? Our decision making in life is often left to the very last minute when we are either compelled, forced or pressured into finally making a commitment into something.

Many people only start taking their health seriously after a health scare. Many people only start thinking about God when staring death in the face. Many people only start worrying about money when they realize they don’ t have enough to do all they want and need to do.

And we wonder why we’re so trapped by circumstances in life. We wonder why we’re not empowered. We wonder why we’re always on the receiving end of what life has to dish out for us instead of us taking it by the bull’s horns. We often know what we want out of life. We know what we want to achieve. But we either never give enough though to how we’re going to do it, or we have but never get moving on it. Complacency is the plague of our lives.

And when I say ‘OUR’, I mean me too.

Personally, there are some resolutions that I have made for myself too. Among them – loose 10kgs, be more active at church, and finally – stop coming to work an hour late all the time. All this made just before Christmas…

And then Christmas and New Year came and I ate so much my stomach almost burst, I woke up late to go to church, and as I type this I’m already later for work.

Oh well……….

There’s always Chinese New Year right?

Happy New Year to you my friend….

Last year was great… but may this year be even better for you, and me, and all of humanity.