New Year Revolutions

I have never believed much in the New Year’s resolutions.

Often times they are just ideas that sounded really good when drunk on New Year’s Eve.

I’ll do 100 sit ups before bed every night!

They just don’t work out in the long run (or short run for that matter).

Which is not to say that aren’t things that could use changing.

But the quit-smoking-drinking-lose-25-pounds-and-stop-eating-big-macs is just fodder for the health club industry.

Most new memberships are sold in January which coincidentally is the last time most people visit the gym.

I do believe that some self reflection is a good thing.

It just tends to be less effective when done at 11:45 pm on December 31 when you are half way thru a bottle.

So what would make a good New Years resolution?

My New Years resolution is to not consume my body weight in peanut M&M’s this year. Again.

A good resolution but paradoxically a bad one.

Resolutions that require some physical makeover at the molecular level are difficult to initiate. On the plus side you are being made over at the molecular level everyday of your life. Try to guide yourself in the right direction using at least as much patience you would need to train a new puppy. Because face it you are simultaneously a new puppy and not a new puppy. Yes you are Schrodinger's puppy.

I am going to run 15 miles every day!

Another fantastic resolution but completely devoid of any connection with reality as we know it in this universe or in any infinite number of parallel universes that may concurrently exist.

You might as well say you are going to change you eye color. 

Maybe a good resolution is something a bit less personal and not so core to your current physical configuration. 

If you are going to make changes be gentle with yourself, be realistic and start small. 

Drink some more water and go for a walk.  

Be nice, to yourself as well as to others.

We can meet up next year at this time and tell each other lies about how well we did.