I have gone back and forth on my opinion about making New Year's Resolutions. I certainly believe it is good to make goals that you hope to accomplish, but I believe that resolutions are very different than goals. I also wonder if we set ourselves up for failure in making New Year's Resolutions? I know, in my own life, many of the things I struggle with and hope to accomplish require that I make a "New Day" resolution each and every morning. And even then, I struggle greatly with making sure that I keep my committment. So how much harder is it to make a resolution that you plan to keep for 365 days without getting discouraged and abandoning it completely?
I have made goals for 2006. I certainly have things I hope to do and accomplish. But, for me personally, I get far too overwhelmed when I think what I am supposed to accomplish in the next 365 days. So, I will take it one day at a time and continue to try and take up my cross daily - both in my faith life and personal life (which I don't believe can really be separated as each one impacts the other.)
Agreed. Though I have been pretty successful with mine the last couple of years (in regards to movies/books), I didn’t come up with any for 2006. I plan on continuing those past resolutions as well as improving other things in my life, but I agree that sometimes “new day resolutions” are more practical year long ones. e
Posted by: z | January 07, 2006 at 11:28 AM