Day to Day Musings

For those who may not know, I am the elusive litnet member who randomly appears once a year, and then goes back into the mists...

The topic of today, is New Year resolutions. I do not have one. I don't really want one either. It's been a few years since I've even considered it for a few key reasons:
1. I don't find a new year to be substantial motivation for doing something. I find that, positive changes or promises I make to myself are more likely to succeed if I have a more psychological and emotional connection to the actual decision making as opposed to some unrelated event.
2. I rarely make life changing promises to myself because I do one of the two contradicting things: I take the promise I made to myself too seriously to the point where I stick too it even if it might have been a poor decision, or I brush the promise off with a "ppfftt, whatever," which then results in a snowball of "whatever"s, confuses me about what my priorities are, and eventually makes my brain explode.
3. I have enough to do without a resolution thank you very much.
4. I don't feel like it, so there.
In the end, I do just fine without resolutions. I take on changes I need to make as the challenges present themselves. I have the option of changing my mind. Some self change is positive or effective for only a certain amount of time, and then it's time to switch to something else. There are always core values which remain a constant in my life and keep me happy and growing as a person; all other changes are dwarfed in comparison. I will always strive to be polite, generous, driven, and unquenchably (<<apparently spelled correctly???) curious about life. That will keep me going for a while.