New Year, New Me?

Nuh-uh. Not this year. I don't think so. 

I am not keen on New Year's resolutions in the first place, and I am even more against the idea that once year (and every year) I decide to reinvent myself. 

There are the easily measurable versions of "the new me": losing weight, saving more, eating and using less.  Then there are the more indefinite promises: the "to live more in the moment" me, the "be a better friend/partner/parent" me.

And what do I notice most about all of these?  The resolutions are all internally motivated; however you look at it, it really is all about me.

And I find that incredibly selfish.  I mean, what kind of resolution is that: to spend the next year making myself the ultimate priority?

Now, I am not saying that putting a higher emphasis on my health or personal relationships is a bad thing, for me, or for anyone else.  In fact, I am starting a new running program with my husband to raise our level of fitness AND spend more time together not in front of a TV or a machine.

But I refuse to make that my resolution.  I refuse to have ANY resolutions for 2012.  I just want to continue living, heart open and thankful for the friends and family members in my life, and many opportunities that I have been blessed with.