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The Best New Year’s Resolution of All
It’s not about where we want to go. It’s how we want to feel along the way.
A shiny new year is upon us once again. It’s a time when many of us reflect on the year that has just blinked out of existence and think about what things we want to banish along with it. It’s also a time when we can forge a new path ahead and consider what we want to invoke into our lives.
We make our liquor cabinets as arid as deserts and begin our Dry January. We put out the last glowing embers of our cigarettes as fireworks light up the night sky. The candy and potato chips are hastily evicted from our kitchen cupboards.
Most of us want to start the new year on the right foot. I like to think about what I want to manifest in the 365 days ahead. For me, it’s a time to reset—a chance to begin again, throw out the script of the past, and write a new chapter. Those new chapters usually start with a table of contents known as resolutions.
I started to think about the word resolution. Most of us know what it means, and when you look it up, a few definitions pop up:
A firm decision to do or not to do something.
The quality of being determined or resolute.
