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Start Thinking About Your New Year's Resolutions


Submitted by tonyplant on December 16, 2006 - 18:05.

small figure on hill against a desolate landscape crying "it's all about me!"

It is easy to come up with the same-old, same-old flagellating New Year's Resolutions. Bypass all those pious intentions to go to the gym, follow a seaweed diet and learn a new language.

You form resolutions because you want to make yourself a better person or because you believe that the end state of these resolutions (being fitter or thinner) will make you happy. Stop setting yourself up for failure, head straight for the main goal of making yourself happier.

Decide right now, that you will count your blessings and cultivate gratitude for what is in your life, not what might be in your life if only...Instead of those gruelling fitness tests, examine your character strengths and virtues (take the tests at Authentic Happiness) and decided how you can use them more regularly. You can investigate whether you can enjoy your pleasures rather than take them sadly.

There are many benefits to enjoying your pleasures, appreciation and counting blessings and cultivating your personal strengths. The first three can take as little as a minute at a time. The last needs more planning and reminders to use your strengths but it is equally pleasurable.

You can also think about putting together some music, photographs or videos that are mood-lifters that can be taken around with you and used in on moments. Think about these suggestions when thinking about your New Year's Resolutions. What else are you planning to do that can have such a powerful impact on your longevity, health and quality of life?

 

 

new year's resolution | happiness | blessings


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Sisiphus (not verified)

December 18, 2006 - 13:13

I stand corrected. Memory still causing me problems (perhaps it's not ECT, but early onset dementia?)

Regards, 

Sisiphus 



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tonyplant

December 19, 2006 - 15:00

To be honest, Sisiphus, it's my wife who is the movie buff. I didn't know if you were thinking of a more intellectual film than <i>Short Circuit</i> or similar because there are several Asimov-like films, I just don't recall them that well.

Perhaps it's neither, and it is more that you are slightly intoxicated by the smell of Christmas spices wherever you go.

Best - Tony Happystance



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tonyplant

December 18, 2006 - 11:19

All of the comments on this site are held in a spam queue until they are cleared - this one was trapped in with 270 adverts for a medication that begins with a V and ends in A or spams on a similar theme. I don't know about your ISP, but when NTL bought out Virgin, it has started doing bizarre things to people's servers, gateways and IPs.

Thank you so much for your comments - they are appreciated. I, too, am pleased to have discovered someone who does think there is some value to positivity and cultivating our strengths.

That film - it also contains the line, "No. 5 is alive!", doesn't it?  Is it Short Circuit? Or is the line there, "More input, more input"?

Best - Tony Happystance



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Sisiphus (not verified)

December 18, 2006 - 06:55

I did send a comment just after you'd posted this, but it appears to have been eaten. Either that or I am now blacklisted by my server.

What I had said was along the lines of I think that I need to start my New Years Resolutions now, rather than wait until New Year. I don't think there was an awful lot else. I did want to say that I am very glad that I found your blogsite and I am learning new things all the time thanks to you and some other bloggers. I cannot remember the title of the film, but I remember from decade or so ago, tere was a film with a robot that kept asking to be fed.....information, information, information ! Darn, I wish my memory would return.

Your quotes and information and your belief in the value of positivity, have helped enormously. You are certainly on my list of blessings to count and I'm going to spend my half days with this posts recommendations in mind.

Thanks,

Sisiphus 



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