Barbara from Momographica is here today. Enjoy her post!
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New Year resolutions had once been my own personal boogeyman. During my school years I obsessively kept a notebook where I used to write never-ending lists of what I was looking forward to change about myself and going to accomplish for that specific year. A December later I usually ended up feeling moody and discontent when I realized that I wasn't able to accomplish the half of what I put in that dramatic list, feeling like a failed Wonder Woman for the sake of the "I will never be good enough teenager" that is in everyone us once {or constantly} in a life. In a way, it had been an important teenage trauma.
When I became an adult, my life got busier and especially more independent. I started to understand that my mistake had been looking forward accomplishing an impossible tasks list which length could rival the Great Wall of China, instead of appreciating the importance of everyday life little achievements that, step by step, drew me closer to the few goals I really cared about.
After that, I nourished a proof against method: with a colored paper, usually some relaxing pastel color, because it puts me in a happy mood and a pen I feel comfortable with making a list of ten things I want to accomplish for the new year. Then, from the list, I choose three things I REALLY want to accomplish for that year and I put them on the top of the list. Those three are my New Year resolutions. When I accomplished them and only then I take out of the hat number four, five, six, seven, up to ten and take care of what I am missing from the original list.
My target is to know that, when I'll look back next December to my list, I'll be proud of myself because I had been able to accomplish new three important goals in my own life. I'll love myself a bit more and I will have gained a bit of new self confidence. Try this. It's total counter-indication free.
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I hope you enjoyed Barbara's post, I sure did, and I learned something new today!
