Have Your Resolutions "Gone With the Wind"?

By the end of January, the keeping of New Years’s resolutions can have a lot of parallels with “Gone With the Wind”.

(And I’m not pretending to have any “guru-like” status as I say this…I got to thinking about it all as I battled, mentally, to keep my own promises to myself in the midst of a very grey London winter this week…The resolution, if you haven’t guessed, is to get Selfworks.Net into a shape that members can really use and enjoy…You only need to read recent posts to know we’re not there yet, on stage one, but almost).

Anyway, as ever, I’m digressing. Back to why the whole resolution-keeping arena is like “Gone With the Wind,” at least for those of us experiencing winter in the northern hemisphere, anyway. There are three parallels, as well as the fact that many people’s resolutions have already, “gone with the wind”, by now.

Firstly, it can feel like there’s a war going on in your head as conservative ideas that keep life stable, battle with new ones that push things forward…all in fairly bleak conditions that test resolution by themselves.

Secondly, there’s a huge tempation, by this time to turn around and say, “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn, ” about it all…and wait for Jan 1st to roll round again.

Thirdly, and most importantly, there’s the chance to forget our cultural obsession with starting things on Jan 1st, and to remember that,”Tomorrow is another day.”

In other words every day brings with it a fresh start, and a new chance for that day to give you what you need…if you’ll let it work for you.

Come to think of it, today is another day as well, so I’m off to explore it. Please join me in that too.

Hope this helps

More soon

Clare