So as with anyone, I use New Years as my checkpoint as to how well I've achieved my goals in life. And every year I feel like a huge failure. Actually my birthday is on the 5th, so between New Years and the 5th, I obsess over everything that I need to do for the next year and think about all that I haven't accomplished. And I make a resolution to change my life. Quite a big resolution that never goes anywhere.

But I've decided this year that I'm not making a resolution. Making a resolution I feel gives me the opportunity to drop getting healthier. It makes me feel like I'm trying to do something temporarily just to achieve weight loss. And what I've come to terms with over the past 6 months (very slowly) is that I can't put in a temporary fix. I need to alter my life permanently to make good decisions and good choices to become healthier.

So my New Year's resolution this year is not to have a New Year's resolution. I'm just going to be and exist and move towards the good things as a way of life and not only due to the fact that it's now 2012. We'll see how this all works out. I have the beginnings of the one thing that I haven't had in a long time.....hope. And I'm determined to make a difference in my life. But I'm resolute in my decision to not have a resolution.

Love this This is my thought too. I'm working on getting healthier but it has nothing to.do wirh a date! Good for you

I'm with you; I don't do resolutions, either. I feel like they're mostly about the talk. I know some people make and stick to them, but for most I know they're nothing more than a joke. If I'm going to change my life, it's going to be because I'm ready, not because of some arbitrary date on the calendar.

I don't buy into the whole 'new years resolution thing' either, seems a bit cheesy to me, and like you're just setting yourself up for failure.

I am not a goal or resolution setter, but I do consider what overall path I want to take each year. This year I want to focus on spirituality. There is no "goal" only a path to explore. I have a major across-the-world move coming up in 4 months and a major downsizing of all we own on top of it, so I will need to be able to stay as centered as I can manage.