Happy New Year!

The Christmas season has come and gone and now we are faced with a brand new year. With the advent of a new year, comes the resolutions to make change. It makes sense that a new year would be the time to make changes in our lives. We can trade old habits (hopefully the bad ones) for new habits.

Many people are of the attitude that they never keep their new resolutions so what is the sense in making them. Making a new resolution is basically the same thing as setting a new goal for yourself. If you set a goal that is unrealistic, then, of course, it will be difficult to attain it. It might make sense to make a series of smaller resolutions much in the same manner of setting smaller goals in order to help attain a major goal. This would be in keeping with the saying "baby steps".

If we decide to make no resolutions at all, then we are saying that we do not want to try to better ourselves. There is always room for some improvement no matter how perfect we may be and we all know the saying that "nobody is perfect". If we stop trying to improve our lives then we might as well just stop living. The world around is constantly changing and we need to make necessary changes just to keep up with an ever changing society. Eventually, ours cars die, our clothes wear out or stop fitting us, our houses start to need repair. No matter how much we think that we do not need change in our lives, our lives make it necessary for us to change something about what we do or need.

So no matter how much you think that you will not keep that resolution, it is very important that you sit down and try to make it. If you have some type of goal written down on paper, you have a reason to commit to it. Make it a goal that is not unreasonable. Many people decide to start a fitness or weight loss program at this time of year. If you design a plan to help you with your resolution or goal, that is half of the battle. You need to review and assess this goal and the plan periodically to see if you on the right track. Whatever change you decide to make stick with it. If something happens and you fall off track don't give up. You can always start again. This happens to most people with a goal and a plan. You need to see why you got off track, reevaluate the goal and the plan so that you can get back to making the original goal work.

So let's get back to business of change and sit down and write out that New Year's Resolution. Here's to a Happy and Healthy 2007!