In the last week of every year you always see are people saying, “New Year, New Me.” They make resolutions and promises for the new year that they won’t end up keeping. Well I, for one, am not doing that. I’ve entered 2017 the same person I was three days ago in 2016. I’m not going to make ridiculous goals that I will most likely drop by the end of the first week of January. Most of the goals that people make are to lose weight, change their job, earn more money, etc. These don’t work. That’s because you can’t do most of these things cold-turkey and many people give up if they don’t see differences right away.

Of course I want to grow as a person throughout the year and fix some of the things that stressed me out in the past year. But I realize that these things will take time. I’m not going to put pressure on myself to make sure I achieve these goals because I don’t want to be disappointed at the end of the year and see all of the things I didn’t do. I want to be proud of the things that I did accomplish and just continue to push myself to be a better person. This year, instead of trying to change every single thing about myself, I’m going to just be me and see where that takes me.

People are going to say “But the new year is a time to start over!” and I see where they’re coming from, but things don’t necessarily just start over. So I plan on just starting this new year with an optimistic point of view and see where things take me.

You should too.

Happy New Year.