Comments on: No New Year’s Resolutions for Me http://www.letlifehappen.com/2009/12/26/no-new-years-resolutions-for-me/ Barbara Jacoby - Breast Cancer & Domestic Abuse Survivor trying to inspire. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:31:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barbara Jacoby http://www.letlifehappen.com/2009/12/26/no-new-years-resolutions-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Barbara Jacoby Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:27:35 +0000 http://www.letlifehappen.com/?p=682#comment-586 Well, as I said last week, I am sometimes a little slow on the uptake but am always happy when I finally understand such things as New Year's resolutions. You are so right in your commentary. And thank you so very much for your kind words about my writing and sharing here. Believe me, it is you and others like you who make this experience so valuable for me, too. Well, as I said last week, I am sometimes a little slow on the uptake but am always happy when I finally understand such things as New Year’s resolutions. You are so right in your commentary. And thank you so very much for your kind words about my writing and sharing here. Believe me, it is you and others like you who make this experience so valuable for me, too.

]]> By: Mandi http://www.letlifehappen.com/2009/12/26/no-new-years-resolutions-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-585 Mandi Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:19:10 +0000 http://www.letlifehappen.com/?p=682#comment-585 I am so glad that you have made peace with the New Year's resolution. I have always felt like it was a set up for failure. Every year people would ask me what I was going to do for my New Year's resolution. I always tell them that I don't make resolutions. I really didn't have anything that I wanted to change or give up for a whole year. Sure ~ there are always things that I want to change about myself. But that's just an ongoing process in my life. I have a huge fear of failure. I just never wanted to put that much pressure on myself. I do kind of dread the first of every year when I go to the gym for my regular workouts. It is so crowded that I can barely find a machine to work out on. It seems that everybody has decided to work out and lose weight for their resolution. By March, things are back to normal at the gym ~ and my regulars are there to greet me. When I started working out daily about 5 years ago, it wasn't a resolution. I did it because my body was changing as I got older. I wanted to make working out a part of my life so that I could be healthy and to stay in shape. So for me, the New Year is not about changing something in my life. It's about looking forward to a new year of changes and hope of a better future. We are all just a work in process and things are always changing. Just like the Christmases that you talked about last week. They will always be changing because people pass away and new people join the family. Embracing the changes is so much easier than fighting them. I'm so happy that you are here to write your blogs and share your life with us. We are all better for having you in our lives. I know for sure I am! Many blessings ~ Mandi I am so glad that you have made peace with the New Year’s resolution. I have always felt like it was a set up for failure. Every year people would ask me what I was going to do for my New Year’s resolution. I always tell them that I don’t make resolutions. I really didn’t have anything that I wanted to change or give up for a whole year. Sure ~ there are always things that I want to change about myself. But that’s just an ongoing process in my life. I have a huge fear of failure. I just never wanted to put that much pressure on myself. I do kind of dread the first of every year when I go to the gym for my regular workouts. It is so crowded that I can barely find a machine to work out on. It seems that everybody has decided to work out and lose weight for their resolution. By March, things are back to normal at the gym ~ and my regulars are there to greet me. When I started working out daily about 5 years ago, it wasn’t a resolution. I did it because my body was changing as I got older. I wanted to make working out a part of my life so that I could be healthy and to stay in shape. So for me, the New Year is not about changing something in my life. It’s about looking forward to a new year of changes and hope of a better future. We are all just a work in process and things are always changing. Just like the Christmases that you talked about last week. They will always be changing because people pass away and new people join the family. Embracing the changes is so much easier than fighting them. I’m so happy that you are here to write your blogs and share your life with us. We are all better for having you in our lives. I know for sure I am!

Many blessings ~
Mandi

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