New Year's Resolutions

Paper holds everything and anything you put on it

This is the time were many have written many New Year Resolutions that were made with the best intend but definitely are only good for the paper they were written on. We are about to enter the second week of the year and many are working very hard in the commitment of those resolutions. Many made exercise while others made financial resolutions. Some made relationships and other commitments to self of what they are expecting to accomplish in the new year. Perhaps one of our biggest mistakes when making such, is the non-realization of the steps needed for them to be accomplished and the obstacles we might encounter in the way of those. 

When making resolutions or goals it is best to keep them as simple as possible making sure that obstacles are included and ways to either work with the obstacles or ways to remove them in order to reach the goal we have set before us. Seems simple but it can be difficult if we are the kind of people that always have to find the extra in everything. After all, it will be worthwhile if we work with a goal and add everything that can possibly go wrong. This will somehow minimize failures and deceptions due to the high expectation we had at the beginning.

A couple of personal resolutions that I want to have written in my heart and my mind are:

1. To start each day with a positive attitude. That when I wake up besides of what I always do, is to think of the good things that I will be able to accomplish with God's help. I look forward to the anticipation of accomplishment in a daily basis. It might not be a perfect day but I am sure that positive events will overthrow those that were negative. 

2. To bathe myself with happiness. After all, I am the one responsible for my own happiness and not those around me or those I encounter throughout my day. 

3. This one I know it will be a challenging one: To love unconditionally everyone I am allowed to. I say allowed to because sometimes we find people that will not welcome any act of love and think that it is being done in order to get something back. Therefore, since they are not wanting to have to give anything, they do not accept when someone does something out of just pure love for them.

4. Fourth will be hard too and I know it could be for many as well and that is: To worry less and to trust God more.  With the business of daily life and an attribute to human nature, worrying is something that is like part of our DNA. But we need to learn daily that we need to worry less. If it was not possible, there is always tomorrow!

5. Lastly, it will be to forget the past and look forward to what lies ahead. This could be a minute by minute resolution. 

In the meantime, I will strive to continue with my life motto: