New Year's Goals

The new year is twenty days old today.  I ask where has most of this month gone?  Like most, I try to make changes to my life for the new year.  I call them goals as opposed to resolutions.  The reason for using the word goal is that to me it seems more realistic.  Another word I use in place of resolution is intention.  I intend to make changes in the new year but sometimes a good intention falls by the wayside.  Easier for me to say to people I did not keep my goals or my intention then tell people I broke a resolution.  Many would say it is the same, but in my mind it is different.

Last year I wrote this poem about goals for the year.  The funny thing is that when I wrote it, I had already broken one of my goals.

Do you make resolutions or goals that you find you are unable to keep?  Have you made any for 2013 that you have already broken by the twentieth day of the month?

I wrote in the poem that we should pick up the pieces of goals we break and begin again.  

So far I have kept the goal of writing in my personal journal each day (if only a few lines).  Two other goals have been completed.  One of them, starting this blog.  The other, I will tell you about some other time.


                                            GOALS FOR THE NEW YEAR

 ©  Scottie-ann Murphy

The ball drops in Times Square each year at the stroke of mid-night

  one year ends……another year begins

To ourselves we make New Year’s resolutions

 promises to change….to make our lives better

 or to do something we may have wanted  

   but never took the opportunity

We may deiced to loose weight,

  begin an exercise routine

   save more money….spend less

    or take time to stop and smell the flowers

These good intentions we begin on the first day of the year

 hoping each day to see them through

 Unfortunately by February first, many have been broken

Aspirations made on January first seem attainable at the time

The objectives we begin at the start of the New Year

  give us feeling of accomplishment  

We begin to eat healthy, start the exercise regime

  take up the hobby and make life changes

    these objectives are long term

When we break one or two….we become defeated

  failing in our Big Plan

Instead of abandoning our new goals

   we should pick up the broken pieces….

     and begin anew

Each year I make goals that I hope to accomplish

My intention this year will be to re-start those I break

Then again….maybe long terms goals should not be in my plan

 Perhaps I should make a list of intentions….

       then try to conquer only one each month

My first goal for the New Year…. I will write in my journal everyday

Today, the sixth day of January……

    Item one on my list has already been broken