New Years Resolutions. Everyone is talking about it – “what are your New Years Resolutions?” Everyone decides what they want to accomplish in the grand, wide-open year ahead of them – full of promise, 2017. Every blog, radio show, article and motivational class talks about the same old topic.

Well, I have a problem with Resolutions. I think they should be banished. In fact, I want to hold a Revolution on all Resolutions, and here is why:

The minute you give a name to my desire to do something really big and hard – like lose weight, get rich, or get rid of every last bit of clutter in my home, you’ve put a heavy burden of pressure on the “resolutions” and you’ve diminished the resolver’s power to achieve them. Come on, give them a name? Why would you do that? Isn’t it anyway on our minds that we WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT?

Do I need a “New Years Resolution” written down in a chart as prescribed by some motivational speaker or writer out there who was asked to give an in-service at countless workplaces in the the city? I mean – admit it, aren’t those the resolutions we all made for last year?

Lose weight, get rich, earn more, spend less, exercise more, eat less, and on and on.

We know it now on January 1st (okay, January 2nd), just as much as we know it on December 31st. Nothing has changed, so why is a resolve in the form of a label going to change anything?

I maintain that we need to chill out a bit. We need to just continue to do whatever we are doing in the past – better. Yes, pick one thing we are doing well, and focus on doing more of that well. And the rest will follow.

But nobody ever makes a New Years Resolution to “keep doing the same thing that you are doing well.” Nope. According to NYRs, we have to make a list of things to do differently.

And that’s the problem with Resolutions. That’s why they never work. That’s why every year, we are writing down the same NYR’s over again that we wrote last year, and pretending that this is the first time we are writing it. That is why every blog writes about resolutions (as I am), and every blog claims that this year will be different, if we just channel our energies and focus.

Not true. So my message today in this Non-NYR’s blog is to advise everyone that you cross off all your resolutions that you wanted to do, and just resolve to do the same things well that you did last year.

At least that way you will be headed to success. You know you will accomplish that, and you will feel like  you achieved.

Go. Do it. Give it all you’ve got. Do what you know how to do – right and well and good.

And forget about the rest, because it’s not worth the resolve.