Confession: I've already broken most of my New Year's resolutions.
Every year I am first reluctant, then excited, to make resolutions for the coming year. I think this is probably pretty common. Everyone enjoys a fresh start. People like to make positive changes in their lives. New Year's, for whatever reason, has become the benchmark of life-changing days.
I think it's safe to say that everybody falters with the resolutions now and then. Of course perhaps not on such epic proportions as I do every year. In fact, this year, I vowed to make NO resolutions. I told myself that I would make the necessary changes I needed in my life instead, whenever I was ready. Maybe I'd stop biting my nails on April 17th. Perhaps I would cut out caffeine on July 18th. No, I did not need the fresh new page of the calender to tell me when and where I needed to make life changes. Still, against my better judgement, I made a bunch of resolutions on January 1st, like so many others.
And here we are. Barely two months into the new year, and I have already fallen back on all of the things I had resolved. Probably deserve it for making such on-the-fly resolutions. I didn't do much soul searching. I probably could have chosen my resolutions from yournewyearsresolution.com- they were that lame.
So, here I am with New Year's: The Redeux. You can call it New Year's: The Sequel, New Year's: Part Two, whatever... I just like the french thing...
And it starts on.... Presidents Day!
Yeah, I know. I just picked the next random sort-of important date on the calender.
My Redeux Resolution? It is one I just know I can stick with...
My resolution is to shower every day. No really. I swear. Stop laughing. Well, laugh if you want, but a mom with 3 kids and 2 dogs who works from home... seriously... showering every day is so 2001. But not anymore. I resolve that every day I will take a shower. Not just because I have a meeting. Not just because my Mom is coming over. Not just because one of the kids puked on me. Every day. Shower. Seriously.
And how do I ensure myself that I will not fail at my task? Good old fashioned consequences. I am not allowed to go on Facebook OR Twitter until I have showered. No for real. I mean it. So you know I'm gonna be lathering up on a regular basis. I've told all of my friends and neighbors. So, if you see me tweeting in the morning, or notice I've just updated my Facebook status, don't be afraid to call me out. I might still be soaking wet and in a towel tapping away at the keys, feeding my social media obsession, but hopefully, I will be successful this time. I mean, a shower, right? Can it get any easier?
Monday, February 20, 2012
New Year's: The Redeux
So, I ask you. How did you do on your New Year's resolutions? Did you make any? Have you stuck to them? Are you grateful for the chance to do it all again? Or are you wondering why after just denouncing resolutions entirely, I would chose some ridiculous arbitrary day to try and set myself up for failure again?
Whatever the case, I assure you that the object of this exercise is to set you up for success. Only realistic resolutions are allowed!
So join me! Let me know what your Redeux Resolutions are. Leave a comment. Tweet me @michellew_ using #Redeux. Put it on facebook. Whatever. I want to know what you are doing. I want you to succeed.
You're welcome.
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I SO understand! I haven't had little ones in the house for quite a while, but there is ALWAYS one thing I resolve to do and I have not succeeded. No Smoking. I have 3 left to get me thru the evening and I am resolving (again) to not buying any more. Wish me luck...
hehe! I HAVE to shower every day - sometimes it's not until NOON, but I have to do it. I feel so gross if I don't!
My resolution is/was to get organized. I haven't started. I have begun LOTS of new projects - thanks to Pinterest. HOWEVER, I have finished most of those projects.
Good luck to you!!
Sara
HA! I can so relate AND I have the same resolution. It's sad isn't it? We take care of everything else first, but somehow showering gets pushed to the back burner and before we know it it's 11pm and all we want to do is crawl in bed with the thought, "I'll shower tomorrow. Really."
Motherhood is not at all glamorous. Hang in there! You CAN do this!
Showers are critical to staying awake when I get up at 5am after going to be at 2am, so I never miss one, kind of like dumping a huge cup of coffee to jolt me awake! My resolution? Not to sleep in. Go to be earlier, but get up at a normal time (more like six or seven maybe?) This keeping insane hours started when my kids were little, then once I started working a 2am to 2pm shift it didn't help, then I started working at home... All I have to say is if you're using a computer w/a camera be sure to turn it off. One of my sister's employees who works from home was online for a meeting one day and didn't realize her camera was on... there she was... looking absolutley glorious... fresh from her shower (but at least back in her pjs and thank goodness it was a group of women!) Just a heads up to anyone who has a camera in their computer.
Showering wouldn't be so bad if you could multitask, but it's kind of a one thing at a time sort of task. I don't make resolutions. Then when I improve by my own volition, I'm very proud!
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I love this. Good resolution, and your method of making yourself stick to it is appreciably clever.
I usually write a list every year, and have kept most of the past bunch of years' worth, and usually the list gets very long. My personal confidence-boosting strategy is that I like to throw in things that are not actually so hard (kind of like your shower thing), and some that are quirky, semi-random and fun. Like, almost every year for the past decade, one of my line items has invariably been "moisturize more." I am already a confessed moisturizer addict (ditto lip balm ...), so it is tenable, yet I feel that there is always room for improvement. I can ALWAYS moisturize MORE. ... For instance, I keep coming up with new places around the house, in the car, etc., to stash various hand creams and lip balms and such. And one can always use this resolution as an excuse to test out new products to find even BETTER moisturizers, read ingredient labels to weed out products with those nefarious sodium laurel/laureth sulfates in them ... you get the jist ... :)
As per keeping things interesting and throwing in a few wild cards, one year one of my line items was to go to the Turkish restaurant once a week, all year long. (There was a Turkish restaurant up on Bustleton Ave. I did not nearly meet my 52 week goal, so maybe it is partially my fault that the place has since closed ...) That said, it was a fun resolution, and I did go there a bit more than I otherwise would, which was very fun.
Also, I find that (though I totally approve of your President's Day strategy) it is reassuring that there are at least 3 New Years per year, in case one goofs up the first time. There is always Chinese New Year, and I know at least once I have made a Rosh Hashanah Resolutions list (which is very timely, in terms of diet-related-resolutions, to deter one from going overboard during the ensuing food-heavy holiday winter season!).
So, how have you been doing on the whole bathing thing, since President's Day? ....
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