new years resolution?

ok i can go on for a while saying stuff about how christmas has become nothing but a hallmark holiday to a lot of people.. but, christmas is over. so it doesn't matter anymore. new years resolutions, yea! it's that time of the year already. EVERY SINGLE YEAR i bet you've made some type of resolution to do this or that.. become a better person.. spend more time with family.. lose weight. don't know, honestly don't really care that much because fact of the matter is that we FAIL to keep our resolutions. why? well lets see.. we stop caring, we give up, the value of the resolution just becomes less important becauseee.... we start cutting corners, we start compromising.. until there is NOTHING left to compromise!! 

so this new year do everyone a favor and DON'T fool yourself into making a resolution UNLESS you REALLY think you're gonna keep it. now a couple of things you can do to follow through with this resolution of yours... 1. WRITE it down somewhere you won't lose it - this way you can always look back to it, and it can look back at you. 2 MAKE SURE you know exactly what you want to do or accomplish. 3. BE ACCOUNTABLE to another person that might be able to help you out with that resolution 4. BE REASONABLE with your resolution - don't make it something like "going to build a car out of scrap" or "gonna lose 200 lbs with jenny craig" or "i'm always going to put the toilet seat down" - expectations are great, but lets build within our limits and work with what we have

maybe a more general one might be to make things about other people a little more than we make things about us - place others before yourself, quite a rewarding experience. keep it real.