Jill Victoria

I decided a few years ago that I just don’t dig the New Year’s Resolutions. They’re great for everyone who wants to make them, but not me.

I prefer to make resolutions when the notion strikes me, and not just because its a new year.

I’ve seen people on Twitter and Facebook say that 2010 is a new beginning, a chance to wipe your slate clean. I beg to differ. A new year doesn’t clean your slate. You don’t hit the reset button and everything you did from 2009 back is gone. Why would you want that anyways?

I’d rather add more to my slate rather than wipe it clean. My choices aren’t always the best, but they make me who I am. I get one chance at this life God has given me and I refuse to see a new year as my life being cleaned away.

Maybe I just don’t see the new year the way most do. I won’t make resolutions to change my life when I’m not mentally ready for it, and I won’t pretend my life has a reset button at the stroke of midnight every January 1st.

I will, however, make my list of goals. Totally different than resolutions. Resolutions are breaking down a complex situation into simpler ones; goals are things to work towards.

My goals will be my next blog.