Resolutions

On the eve of another new year I am thinking about resolutions, the many I want to make for 2013 and the many I have made in the past.

I love New Year’s Day. It is possibly my favorite holiday. Of course I really meant to say Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love spending time with my family, giving and receiving gifts that were specially chosen, decorating (well, maybe not so much anymore), and just the general anticipation and love associated with December 25. Now that I have given Christmas its “props” let me be honest. I find New Year’s Day to be a very personal holiday. It is a time for introspection and new beginnings or, what they call in golf, a Mulligan or a do-over. I love a do-over.

I love making and breaking New Year’s resolutions. I typically make and break the same resolutions every year. Lose weight, exercise, eat healthier, take control of my finances, remodel the house, become more spiritual, read more, write more, become more creative, live in the moment, be a nicer person, appreciate what I have, etc., yada, yada, yada.

Even though I have broken every New Year’s resolution I have ever made it horrifies me to imagine where I would be without at least making those resolutions. Resolutions force me think about the person I want to be, and maybe, just maybe, I get a little closer to becoming that person every year.

Will this year’s resolutions be much different? I doubt it. However, I am adding a new one – be more savvy about technology. That means I will finally up-grade from my hand-me-down I-phone (thanks Melinda) to a new one, I will switch to a Mac from a PC, I will learn how to use Google Docs, I will use an electronic calendar (but keep my trusty Day Runner as backup), I will learn how to utilize the scary television options, and if my luck holds I might even figure out how to set the correct time on my I-pad.

Here’s to a new year and to resolutions.