Dan Byl

Muh hahahah…. Yes when ever I think of those wonderful promises we make to our selves for tradition sake, I begin to laugh in an evil way. On occasion I take a bit of inspiration from a blog I read regularly www.Stuffchristianslike.net. So the other day when he began to talk about new years resolutions and said why wait to start why not start right now I was glad someone other then me thinks that way.

“There is no time like the present.”

I severally dislike holidays like Christmas and valentines for a one reason in particular, that is the gift giving aspect of the day. You might think I am some sort of masochist but the reason is simple, I don’t like giving things to people out of some sort obligation, I want to give to people out of a want a desire to bless.

There are so many expectations that I don’t want to have to live up to. For instance I bought my wife a bike this summer, because I love her, she didn’t have one and I thought it would be something we could do together. And in my expert opinion of my wife she appreciated a random act of love more then when there are expectations. That of course is not to say she is not always very grateful, its just to say that when it is unsuspected a Tuesday morning in the middle of July it reminds her that I am always thinking about ways to make her life better.

This is all to bring me to new years eve, why do we need a certain day to make a resolution that is usually in the realm of making our selves better people. I will stop smoking, drinking, beating up my kids. I think that most of us don’t stick to our resolutions because we made them in the face of some sort of expectation. And over the years I have learned one thing that if we don’t do something because we want to, we will either fail miserably or we will do it half ass.

We use new years as an excuse to not stick to our resolutions, we use excuses like, it was new years, I was drunk, I only said something cause it was my turn. We use new years as a chance to make our selves look good in the moment in front of a group of friends, but we have no real intention of actually acting on what we just spoke out.

So this year if you make a resolution follow through or don’t make one. All you are doing is practicing not following through if you don’t actually do it.

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