New Year's Resolutions

There’s an anonymous quote that always makes me chuckle at this time of year: “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.”

I find it easy to set out some good intentions but then don’t always follow through.

Last year I committed to writing the book on Centerpoint’s unique approach to change and uncertainty, which I’ve been thinking about for several years. While not having fully completed it, I am now close to the end of Chapter 7 out of 12. Woo hoo! And, I have just scheduled more days at the end of this month to keep working on it. (Next up is finding an agent—do you know anyone who specializes in nonfiction, self-help books?) So that resolution feels like it came to some fruition.

But that’s not the case with others, however. For example, I had made a commitment to really focusing on my teeth. Besides the on-going maintenance things, my teeth could use some major overhaul. I haven’t done that yet. I ask myself, “why not?” I guess it just wasn’t as important as I had originally thought. Now that I look back on it, I see that it was a “should” not a “want.” My resolutions have to be things that arise from my heart, not my head and a sense of “I really ought to.”

So what’s in your heart at the beginning of this new year? What do you really, really want?