My only New Year’s Resolution

It’s this time of year again with all the hope of a better year than the one before… again, and all the new year resolutions… again, and all the online articles and blog posts about how you did it wrong last year with the new year’s resolution but this year, it’s a winner, baby… again!
Most common resolutions I’ve seen (and made):

1. Lose weight
2. Be healthy
3. Be happy
4. Find a better job
5. Be happy, dammit!
6. Follow your dreams
7. Find your passion
8. Study more
9. Work more
10. Get married (yes I’ve seen it, and I sort of get it when a couple has been together for a couple of years and it just doesn’t get done!)
11. Leave your spouse (seen it too, not an easy choice)
12. Become more spiritual.
13. Meditate.

My own personal favorites, that happen to be mine and very few other people’s:

1. Write more (2014 was an all-time low for blogging at 9 posts –this makes 10 –and 4000 views) so I showed ’em!
2. Study more.
3. Become a better daughter/sister/aunt/sister-in-law/niece/etc.
4. Do something daring.
5. Learn to cycle.
6. Learn the cello.
7. Write a novel (that’s my favorite, I always kill all the characters in chapter 1) J
8. Finish that story I got in a folder I call “old old old laptop” which just means it’s something I’ve had for a long time.
9. Finish that other story in the folder called “stories” which has a few more other stories right next to it.
10. Face my fears, again!
11. Get in touch with my long lost friends.
12. Drop all the sucky friends.

And because I’ve had so many resolutions for so long that are hardly ever achieved by plan, and usually by accident, I’ve decided to wade into the new year of 2015 unprepared, unplanned, un-disappointed, un-hopeful, with both feet firm on the ground… or not, who knows right?
Here’s what I know about 2015:

1. Absolutely nothing!

I also know that I need to lose weight, write more, finish my stories, write a novel, learn to cycle, face my fears (and all those fears I never realized I had until life decided to throw a curve ball). Therefore, with no resolutions, and with the help historical data and objective self observations, I’ve decided to do one thing in 2015, and that is…
Drumroll please…

Follow Through

And to give myself a helpful hint:

Don’t bite off more than I can chew

So even if I decide to do nothing, and follow through, then I’ve done something. But, if I decide to become NASA’s next top rocket scientist, I’m following through on that too because it doesn’t really matter how terrible our lives are now, or even how wonderful. It doesn’t matter that I haven’t written a story this year, or haven’t learned to play the cello, or even if I gained another scary 10 kg. What matters is that I write 1 and only one story, if that’s what it means to not have a dozen incomplete stories in my old old old laptop folder and say at the end of the year that I want to finish it on the next.
Bridget Jones's New Year Resolutions