Now that Santa has come and gone, we've returned the gifts that didn't fit, and we partied our way into the new year with friends and loved ones, we find ourselves at a famililar and exciting time of year.
The Beginning
The Beginning
We can brace ourselves for the "New Year, New Me" mantras slathered all over social media, and people's sudden temporary gusto for doing things better than they were a week prior. It's hard to ignore the sudden onslaught of "Eat This/Do This/Say This/Wear this to be better in 2018" articles popping up like persistent weeds everywhere you click. It's tempting to give in, to say that this Monday, this morning, this January 1st that everything is going to be different. It's a new day, you're a little different than you were yesterday. We're all a little different (and more than likely hungover) than we were yesterday.
But change, true change, takes acknowledgement and time. It is not something done overnight. It's not something that we blink and I Dream of Jeanie into existence. True change is altering habits by every day making that conscious decision to do it a little differently. To put down the phone more often. To dish yourself a smaller portion size. To stop letting someone walk all over you. To get up earlier. To work out more frequently. To meditate more.
All these things, these beautiful, healthy habits are formed with action, not procrastination and not because of the time of year. If we allow ourselves to fall down the rabbit hole of New Years resolutions we'll keep falling and end up at a table with Alice and the Rabbit as many of us do every year.
The best resolutions that are seen through and kept are the resolutions born from the need to act from one's own personal experiences. If it's New Year's Day, then it's today, if it's 2 months from now then it's then. Though it may seem daunting to see everyone head off to the gym today for the beginning of their annual 3-month membership, remember to love yourself, take a deep breath and stay focused on you - your gym, yoga or spin class will get back to the way it was within a few months.
xoxo
But change, true change, takes acknowledgement and time. It is not something done overnight. It's not something that we blink and I Dream of Jeanie into existence. True change is altering habits by every day making that conscious decision to do it a little differently. To put down the phone more often. To dish yourself a smaller portion size. To stop letting someone walk all over you. To get up earlier. To work out more frequently. To meditate more.
All these things, these beautiful, healthy habits are formed with action, not procrastination and not because of the time of year. If we allow ourselves to fall down the rabbit hole of New Years resolutions we'll keep falling and end up at a table with Alice and the Rabbit as many of us do every year.
The best resolutions that are seen through and kept are the resolutions born from the need to act from one's own personal experiences. If it's New Year's Day, then it's today, if it's 2 months from now then it's then. Though it may seem daunting to see everyone head off to the gym today for the beginning of their annual 3-month membership, remember to love yourself, take a deep breath and stay focused on you - your gym, yoga or spin class will get back to the way it was within a few months.
xoxo
