Give me a break Gillian. It's the middle of January - surely we can forget them by now!!
Don't tell me. You actually have forgotten them. Or at least you're trying very hard to do so.
Well, but here's a postscript to my last post.
Yes, you can forget them. But if they're not working as you'd imagined (planned?), then there is an alternative to dumping them.
You can revise them, you know.
Those resolutions are for you. Things that you want to do, have decided you want to tackle.
So now could be the time to drop those you only like the idea of doing. You'd like to think of yourself as someone who goes running three times a week, but you actually can't bear to get outside in the cold, the wind, the rain and the snow. Fine. Drop that one. Think about it again on May 1st. Put it in your diary.
But what about the ones that you actively do want to do?
You've done them a couple of times, but are in danger of stopping because how you'd imagined they'd work out isn't how they've actually worked out.
And yet you feel you have to stick to the rules. Rules that you made, I might add.
You'd decided to eat more greens. A salad every day. With homemade vinaigrette. (I hereby promise never to use "drizzle" in the context of cooking on this site.) Yet you couldn't face cleaning the slimy outer leaves off that lettuce when you got home from a hard day at work. And as for squeezing a lemon, well, the only one in the fridge is looking dried up and on the point of growing something that could contribute to medical science.
But how could you complete the task of more greens every day without being interrupted by slimy lettuces and mouldy lemons?
Buy a bag of salad? And, horror of horrors, a bottle of salad dressing? One with reasonably fresh ingredients, that lives in the fridge, but still - ready made??
Why not. You can change the rules. The aim is to get more green stuff into you, not to do it in some very specific and particular rule-driven way.
So how can you revise your resolutions so that you can keep them going till March 31st?
This is what I did about my tea resolution. If you remember, it was a Detox tea (blue packet) on Monday and a Cleanse tea (green packet) on Thursday. I'd made a super-witty way of remembering: Blue Mondays and Green Thursdays (try Google...). But I didn't feel like drinking the green one on Thursday. So, revise the resolution: put the packets out by the kettle on Monday and drink them by next Monday. Doesn't matter which day. It can even be two teas on the same day. My rules, mine to change.
So what rules are you going to change?
Go ahead! Make it easier to keep all that good stuff going for a few more weeks.
Here's to you changing your rules. And a Happy New Year still!
Don't tell me. You actually have forgotten them. Or at least you're trying very hard to do so.
Well, but here's a postscript to my last post.
Yes, you can forget them. But if they're not working as you'd imagined (planned?), then there is an alternative to dumping them.
You can revise them, you know.
Those resolutions are for you. Things that you want to do, have decided you want to tackle.
So now could be the time to drop those you only like the idea of doing. You'd like to think of yourself as someone who goes running three times a week, but you actually can't bear to get outside in the cold, the wind, the rain and the snow. Fine. Drop that one. Think about it again on May 1st. Put it in your diary.
But what about the ones that you actively do want to do?
You've done them a couple of times, but are in danger of stopping because how you'd imagined they'd work out isn't how they've actually worked out.
And yet you feel you have to stick to the rules. Rules that you made, I might add.
You'd decided to eat more greens. A salad every day. With homemade vinaigrette. (I hereby promise never to use "drizzle" in the context of cooking on this site.) Yet you couldn't face cleaning the slimy outer leaves off that lettuce when you got home from a hard day at work. And as for squeezing a lemon, well, the only one in the fridge is looking dried up and on the point of growing something that could contribute to medical science.
But how could you complete the task of more greens every day without being interrupted by slimy lettuces and mouldy lemons?
Buy a bag of salad? And, horror of horrors, a bottle of salad dressing? One with reasonably fresh ingredients, that lives in the fridge, but still - ready made??
Why not. You can change the rules. The aim is to get more green stuff into you, not to do it in some very specific and particular rule-driven way.
So how can you revise your resolutions so that you can keep them going till March 31st?
This is what I did about my tea resolution. If you remember, it was a Detox tea (blue packet) on Monday and a Cleanse tea (green packet) on Thursday. I'd made a super-witty way of remembering: Blue Mondays and Green Thursdays (try Google...). But I didn't feel like drinking the green one on Thursday. So, revise the resolution: put the packets out by the kettle on Monday and drink them by next Monday. Doesn't matter which day. It can even be two teas on the same day. My rules, mine to change.
So what rules are you going to change?
Go ahead! Make it easier to keep all that good stuff going for a few more weeks.
Here's to you changing your rules. And a Happy New Year still!
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