Without a doubt every year, people make or know people who make new year’s resolutions. It’s inevitable. Everyone wants to start the year off on the right foot and make some promises to theirselves to change, do, or be accountable for whatever they think they need to work on. Or something they may have slacked on in the past year. 

As the halfway point of January is here I think it’s a good time to look at your resolutions or goals for the year if you made any, see how it’s going and even make adjustments if you find things aren’t working out completely how you imagined.

I feel like resolutions are a huge hit or miss. You either are a fan of them and make your list at the end of December or you just avoid the whole thing and enter the new year in a nonchalant manner. I for one like the idea of resolutions and starting the new year with a clean slate. For me, making my resolutions leaves me with a good intention set for the year and the mindset to make the new year better than the last.

However, I do completely understand why some people are against the whole resolution thing. Sometimes it just makes you feel bad or disappointed. Not living up to your own expectations that you set can be tough, especially cause you set them for yourself, thinking and wanting to attain them. This is where I see resolutions getting messy because then it’s kinda doing the opposite of what it should do which is making yourself feel better. 

I am no stranger when it comes to failed resolutions – if you are reading my dry January stories then you know I’ve failed that one once. Or how I always say “this year I’ll drink a gallon of water a day” and if I’m lucky maybe I’ll get one of my stanley water cups in a day. So this past December when I sat down to write my yearly list of resolutions I thought long and hard about what real changes I wanted to see in my life and from there I made the list. I feel like a lot of the time resolutions will stick for the month of January and then as February comes on and then the spring approaches they are all completely out the window and that just leads to disappointment. 

So this year, I kept my resolutions simple:

• Keep my room clean
• Fold my laundry right away – no more laundry pile in the corner of my room
• Try at least 2 new activities 
• Less take away food
• Complete dry January

So who knows what will happen with these guys. I have a pretty good feeling so far, so hopefully I can keep this up. How do you feel about resolutions? Do you stick to them? Or is it just a January thing?