As a general rule I don’t believe in New Years resolutions. It seems that if a person needs to resolve at the start of a year to do something different, it is just as easily something they probably should have been doing all along. Each day we need to take care of that day. Making resolutions for the coming year is kind of silly and mostly destined to fail.
So, I’m doing my best to avoid thinking in those terms. This impending year I most definitely have goals, but I’m trying to focus more on the daily question of what am I going to do today that over the course of the year will result in the goals I want to achieve? What useful thing will I do on this day that if I make a part of my life will create the future I want naturally?
It’s so much easier to do things right for one day than to do them right for a whole year, you know? Thinking about one day instead of 365 days is extremely useful. Taking that to an even farther extreme, thinking about the current moment instead of the entire day is even more useful. If I’m always where I need to be, doing what I feel is skillful, at any given moment, then my days, weeks, months and years will take care of themselves.
So, no New Years resolutions for me. Just a continuing, ongoing, attempt to be as mindful, present, and skillful as I know how to be and faith that the goals I wish to achieve will flow out of that or, perhaps other events even better will occur.
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