My New Approach to New Years Resolutions

This year, I’m not going to make a list of resolutions to follow. No next year I’m going to do this or that. My resolutions will be simple, because often the most easy to follow or complete things are the ones that are incredibly simple. It’s important to always work towards bettering your character and your attitudes. These are some resolutions that I believe will help create a better life and attitude towards everything.

Seek excellence

Live

Find Joy

The first one seems complicated, but in practice is very much not. Seeking excellence is as simple as working toward goals, living with a defined purpose and set intentions. Seeking excellence is not a one time goal, but a purpose to plan for success and to not live without a defined sense of what you want. This also allows for times where you’re just unmotivated for anything other than laying around. You can simply get up and drink a cup of coffee and clean or do what you are capable of at that particular moment. Excellence is a process…not something that can be completed in a day.

Setting a resolution to live allows you to accept what goes on in your life as simply what it is: a part of life. You can be bitter that you lost income, or that people you care about don’t feel the same about you or you can understand that life is inherently unfair and that we can change our perspective instead of allowing it to break us. Live with the idea that we are here to give value and to appreciate everything, even the negatives. I…