Filed under: Balance | Tags: , addictions, change, Guilt, New Year's resolutions, soda, weight loss
Most of us make some kind of resolution at the start of a new year. We’re determined. Steadfast. Resolute. This will be the year that we shed those extra pounds, start exercising three times a week, or finally give that bad habit the boot. Then, come February, we’re curled up on the couch watching reruns and eating cheese puffs.
Why is it so hard to commit to something that we know will make us healthier, stronger? I’m convinced it’s a matter of wording. At least, for me it is. In my strange little head, resolution = obligation. That’s why this year I’m not making any resolutions. Only dissolutions.
Dissolution: termination or extinction by disintegration or dispersion.
Dissolution means it’s time for some ass-kicking. It means I’m already stronger than my habits, bigger than my addictions, and better than my emotional hangups…it’s just time to prove it.
So here they are: my New Year’s Dissolutions.
1. Dissolution of the soda habit.
Bye bye, addicting fizzy teeth-rotting liquid. I don’t need you. I don’t want you. You’re so last year.
2. Dissolution of guilt.
You don’t rule me anymore. You’re history. I can have a pedicure without you.
3. Dissolution of fat.
Stop weighing me down! I’m going to kick you out pound by pound.
According to Covey, it takes 21 days to establish a habit. So check back with me on January 24. And if you find me at my desk with a coke and some cheese puffs, then just know this:
I’ll be back.
