Resolutions?

Or, what my mind said when I read the January 1 page in my daily meditation book after I had just launched a New Year’s challenge.

If you read the first page in A Daily Dose of Now (January 1), you might wonder why someone (me) who said they don’t make New Year’s resolutions would host a 100-Day movement challenge like the one I host in my Mind, Mood, and Movement Group.

Here’s the page:

“To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.” — Unknown

I stopped making New Year’s resolutions several years ago. I rarely kept them. Instead, I used them to punish myself, recalling my downfalls during the rest of the year. Without the burden of resolutions, I enter each year with more ease. Letting go of these torture lists allows me to change things that used to be on my resolution list. I no longer focus on my failure. Rather than dreaming about, promising to become, or trying to be someone else, I…