From Contributing Author Patricia Hajek
For years, like so many other people I know, I would make a New Year’s Resolution, stick with it for a few weeks~ maybe even a month….only to see it repeatedly go by the wayside. Disappointed in myself, I came to actually expect my resolutions to fall apart. It began to seem as though I was just setting myself up for failure. For the most part, as I look back, I DO think most of my resolutions were always a bit “Unrealistic” ~ “Grandiose” ~ “Pie in the Sky”. Any way you put it, they never had the sweet taste of ‘success’. Some never even ‘got off the ground’ 
Then came the ‘dry’ years….where I didn’t join in with the crowd of resolution-makers. I didn’t make any. “Yeah ~ what’s the point”?, I would ask myself. But somehow, not doing ANYTHING left me with a feeling of failure as well.
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Then, slowly, it came to me. Why not just skip the ‘traditional declaration’ of making a resolution, and start living my life with the idea of what a resolution means to me? So….I did.
For the past few years, it has proven to be good choice for me. Given me a new prospective on how to look at my daily life. And, yes, I would call it “My Most Successful Resolution”. It has become the same one every year. Here’s what I do….
I DON’T DO ANYTHING! That’s right – I don’t do. Don’t write anything down. Don’t scratch my head for ideas. Don’t set unrealistic goals.
I don’t have pen and paper in hand, but make more of a ‘conscious decision’ ~ choosing this to be a way of life for me….
“To get up each day, be grateful to God for one thing, and then continue my day treating others like I would like to be treated ~ just for that day ~ to those I love (or even those I have a hard time loving), treating my friends, even strangers that may cross my path, with the same grace and kindness I would like to receive”.
Sound a little like the “Golden Rule” to you? Well, maybe because it is.
Each morning I put one foot in front of the other. Then, not promising a year, but just that one day, I try to remember to look at others as God sees them, and then respond to them in the way I would want to be treated. And thank God, He doesn’t expect perfection from me, just a willing heart. I can do that. I can have a willing heart.
So, you see, I choose to live my ‘resolution’ in the moment, free from letting my life be measured on the ‘performance’ scale. I am free from the trap of the ‘comparison game’. My life is not defined by the things I own. Not gona get on that train…not even gona buy the ticket.
So far? It’s been workin’ pretty good for me ~ this ‘resolution change’. You might want to try it….