A New Year And No Resolutions

A new year generally means setting goals or resolutions. I am sick of setting these goals and resolutions though... aren't you? I mean every year since I can remember I sit down at the beginning of January and write some goals for the new year so that I can reach said goals; but then the following January I sit down and look at the goals I made last year and I am perpetually disappointed. I seem to be back in the same position I was in before.

I rarely meet the goals that I set unless it was a goal like "get married this year" (that was in 2012 when I was obviously getting married in February) or "go on a mission" which I already knew I was going to do or this past year "have a baby" when I wrote that I knew Kevin and I had been trying to have a baby so that goal was easy to meet. It's the goals like "read my scriptures every day even if it's only a verse" or "attend the temple every week" or "exercise for 30-60 minutes 4-5 times a week" or "eat healthier" blah blah blah... you all know the kinds of goals I'm talking about. The ones we all set but can never quite achieve. The ones that when we miss a day of reading our scriptures or eat a fat piece of chocolate cake (for the third time that week) that make us frustrated and think that we are never going to meet our goals.

Well this year I say heck to goals! Send em all down the toilet with the goldfish you couldn't manage to keep alive for more than a week either. Right? I mean what is the point in setting stupid goals so I am putting a kibosh on the whole thing this year and possibly all of the rest of the years of my life. I don't want to make stupid goals that will just frustrate me, and anyway life is not about meeting those kinds of goals but a progression to perfection. It's not about making a yearly goal, but an eternal goal to become the best version of myself.

Thus I am setting no goals for myself this year, and no resolutions. I am just going to "keep on swimming" and keep on trying to do what I have been trying to do my entire life. Be a better person. I am always going to try and be more spiritual, try to be in better shape, try and eat healthier, and overall improve my life; but I don't need some stupid "new year's resolutions" to do that. I just need my own determination, the support of my husband, and the love of my Heavenly Father. So here's to the new year and here's to trying to always be a better person, not just at the beginning of the year, but every day of every week of every month of every year! For the rest of my life. :) Thus I propose to quit being perpetually disappointed by missed goals and instead be perpetually perfecting and progressing myself.

"...we must learn to take satisfaction in performing at the limits of our ability (for that is where real power is gained) and let God worry about the rest." -Stephen E. Robinson Believing Christ