While everyone else is celebrating the new year and sharing their resolutions, I'm just sitting here enjoying my coffee, my dog, and my Netflix. I chose not to have a resolution this year. Not even three months into the year, I usually forget what I thought of for myself anyways. Between forgetting my resolution and not being able to keep to it, I decided to save myself the disappointments.

However, instead of creating a New Year's resolution, I've decided to write down a few things I want to work on in baby steps, like try to eat more fresh fruits and veggies.

My list contains all things that for some would be considered resolutions. However, I want to work on all of these things and trying to do it all without wiggle room would set me up for failure and disappointment. Many goals I've set for myself in my past resolutions have been unrealistic or haven't gone as planned and left me disappointed. Well, not this year.

This year I'm choosing to not have a resolution. This year I've decided there's multiple areas of my life that could use improvement, even in small ways. I've chosen to try to better myself all around and not focus on just one aspect. By using words like try to and when you can, I leave myself room for those days where I just don't have the time to make it to the gym or I don't have easy access to a piece of fruit for a snack but instead I have a bag of chips in my backpack.

For those that make resolutions at the start of the new year, more power to you. I hope that it works out for you and that you become a better person through it. However, this year I chose not to create one concrete resolution. Instead, I chose to choose multiple things I want to start working on little by little. Three days into the new year and I already feel better because I don't have the same pressure lingering over my to stick to my resolution as I have in the past.