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Christmas is past for another year and most of us are anticipating ushering in the New Year, 2009. President -elect Obama stated "change is needed". And this is now the time that most of us look forward to new beginnings. We do so by trying to better our lives and make the New Year's Resolutions. Most aren't kept through February. So why do we do it?
I think it's because we have hopes, and dreams, and have good intentions. We all want things to be better....whether it's our health, our finances, our relationships, our lifestyles, we can usually find something we want to change within our own little worlds, and even sometimes in the bigger world that we live in. Many make resolutions to loose wieght or to quit smoking. We visualize "new" selves with these changes made, and we hope and dream and plan and scheme to make it so. Only, usually, those good intensions are short lived.
But really, what are resolutions? They are nothing more than goals. Goals that we set for ourselves. Those goals come from our dreams. Our hopes. And our desires. I see nothing wrong with wanting a better life and making a resolution to make it happen. Of course, I see nothing wrong with sitting and staring out a window while daydreaming a little either.
You have a dream. Dreams become goals. Goals give you something to work toward and they give you hope that you will accomplish what you dreamed. What better time to start those new changes as when there is a New Year beginning. So let's make our resolutions, and support each other with keeping them.
Feel free to share here what you think of resolutions, and what ones you are making (if any). Let's have some fun with this, and just do it!
by Diana Evans aka Tumbleweed58
