Oh schizzles… it’s that time of year when we are inundated with the new year hoopla. Time again for the “New Year, New You”, the body Challenges, the Start Fresh stuff, etc…(I’m already exhausted thinking about the overwhelm).
This is “how it’s been” and “how it will be” long past when I’m in the grave.
But hold on a hot minute… There is a touch of another vibe going on in the social media world (at least, amongst the kind of folks I follow).
It’s almost a “resolution shaming” - like, how dumb we are to even consider setting resolutions in January: “They never work, you waste money and time, you engage in activities that don’t support long-term change, and you’re just goofy to even have any resolutions.”
If you’re feeling a bit of this shame, and you have secret New Year’s Resolutions that you’re too scared to share (cuz they’re dumb according to parts of my social media feed), let me help put your mind at a teeny tiny bit of ease.
You can resolve to do or not do whatever you want.
Honoring YOU in the ways you want to show up in YOUR life is HONORABLE.
But it’s not about me or your other social media followers.
It’s about YOU and the life you have to live (and for many of us, the life we “get” to live, #whiteprivilege)
If you are inspired by the new calendar year and ready to make change, then go for it.
I could talk until I’m blue in the face about the cautions of fad diets, flaws of Fitness Challenges, and pseudo health professionals who have no business saying what they’re saying or selling the products/services they’re selling. But that’s not the point of this message.
As much as we can say “resolutions don’t work,” we can also say “resolutions work”.
It is up to you, your resolution design, your “inputs” and approaches, your mindset and expectations.
I know plenty of people who achieve what they set out to do.
But they work through all of that nitty gritty stuff in advance with careful examination, reality checks, and acceptance of the life that there is right this moment.
Getting real and resolving what there is to resolve.
We each do different. And that is a beautiful thing.
-Dina