Break up your unploughed ground, and do not sow among thorns
Changing calendars may be a good time for reassessment. How did last year go? What do I want to do differently this year? Over time, the New Year seems to have developed camps determining our approach to it. There is the camp for resolutions and those against. Then there are those that call them goals but not resolutions; someone help me out with the difference here.
All in all I guess
at some level, we all need
changes. Some changes we find hard
to admit to others and maybe even to ourselves. There is
great power in confession. Owning up to our failures is the first, painful step
on the road to something better. For the person who determines to learn from
it, failure is a friend, failure is not the end.
So for me this year, I refuse to do nothing but equally refuse to attempt something and fail miserably in a secret resolution. Yes I said it I have something I want to improve, to change, to be. Call it a goal, an aim, call it what you may but 2016 is the year I get summer arms!!!
Yes I know there are more important things to life than my bingo wings but get this, I don’t want to bore you with my list of do better be better. I have those and I am dealing with them. But I have decided where my arms are concerned? We are going to do this together.
It takes a whole village
I will not hide this resolution; to borrow an old African saying it takes a whole village….I am tired of all the undercover “resolutions” that have been recycling on my list for years. I am tired of secretly failing so this year I am going to try something new, I am making it public. I know I have pushed myself into a corner and attracted the arm measuring police, the gym superintendents the food inspectors and the exercise monitors, for this year all of these people are my friends.
So my friends if you ask about my arms, talk about them, comment about them it’s your problem too, I fail you fail I succeed you succeed.
My story
The thing is my arms have bothered me for years and as I grow older they have grown bigger and I have acquired my own personal fan when I walk around.To some my resolution may appear a bit shallow, it’s the New Year, indulge me!
This issue doesn't define me, it doesn't rule me but I figured if I can do something about it why can’t I at least attempt to change it and quit moaning.
Change can be scary but don’t let scared stop you from evolving this year, it might not work and you don’t have to go public. Any change is always accompanied by discomfort but like one writer once said “your desire to change must be greater than your desire to remain the same”.
Michelle Obama I am coming for those arms!
As we all know, when you make a resolution particularly a new year’s resolution, and you only let 3 people know ie me, myself and I, You do so because of the fear of failure and the shame of having to share that failure with the whole world. But then again, when you share it with only those three, you are giving yourself an excuse to fail and an early exit strategy. However telling everyone gives you an incentive and a determination to succeed.
ReplyDeleteSo my dear Leah, l hear you loud and clear and l wish you every success in achieving your goal, resolution, aim, target or to be specific “The change of Arms”
However I'm only sharing my story with those three:-)