It is that time of year again when we make those New Years resolutions. I think I have resolved to lose weight every years since I was 13. Didn't work out too well, although I am eight pounds lighter than I was this time last year. I'm going to call that a success. I always strive to be a better housekeeper. We are going to put that in the failure column. Every year I am going to have an amazing garden. Well it is a garden, but I wouldn't look too closely. There are more weeds than intentional plants. I won't call that a success or a failure. I love my garden as if it was a person pretty flowers and weedy mess.
This year I want to go about this resolution business a little differently. I have a couple of bad thought habits. I tend to regret the past and worry about the future rather than living and thinking in the present. This year, I hope to break these habits. Regret and worry do not serve me well. Being with myself right here and right now in the present is what I need. So it won't be about how I will be thin in the future. It will be about what I eat and how I exercise now. I won't think about the garden that will be or regretting the neglect that lead to the current state of disgrace. It will be about the gardening I will do today. I won't worry about how hard it will be get the book written. I will just write or edit a little today. It won't be imagining when I will be able to speak that second language or why I haven't learned it yet. It will be about the work I do on that language today. It won't be about my misspent youth, it will be about my happy middle age.
Happy New Year Everyone
Hi Debbi, I love this resolution. I realized I spend a lot of time thinking about what led to my divorce, for example, and that was 8 years ago!! And I do worry too much. I really like living int he present, which is something gardening really helps me with. Let's be "now buddies" and check in with each other from time to time to make sure we're in the present! P.S. If it's any consolation, I which my youth had been more misspent!!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your new resolution ideas. I don't have any this year again. I gave up doing those a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteI worry way to much about things. I wish I could quit that! Oh well. Happy NY!!!
That's a great outlook, Debbi! Good luck with your resolutions in the year to come. I've got to sit down and write mine out; face my demons, ya know.
ReplyDeleteI like your resolution and until I read it, I didn't even realize that I need to do the same. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI love this... and the carrots are YUMMO!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Dear Garden Friend!
Hey Debbie girl .. I wish that this "thin" thing would just finally STOP for us all. I am never going to be that way but being healthier is my choice from not being healthy ? LOL .. so I can work on that one .. and the worry thing .. good grief I think it is a mind set of the female sex .. we just can't help ourselves ? .. but I will try NOT to more and more.
ReplyDeleteI don't like to call my yearly choices "resolutions" they are just choices .. day to day .. phew ! I'm glad we had this chat girl !! : )
Joy
That's a good resolution and I wish you luck with it. I am the world's biggest worrier--of things that never happen. You would think I would be old enough to stop that. "Today" is a gift--that is why they call it "The Present."
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Debbi!
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ReplyDeleteGREAT resolution, Debbi! And I think being 8 pounds lighter is a wonderful accomplishment. Just think of all the great things you did in 2009---all the gardening and composting, getting that library job, blogging. It was a fantastic year! So yes, please, enjoy the present. You deserve it! And don't regret your "misspent" youth. Like Monica, I too wish I'd had one to look back on! As the Sweet Potato Queens say, their goal is to live life in such a way that they have plenty of scandalous stories saved up for the nursing home!---Silence
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