New Year's Resolutions

I REALLY like to make resolutions.  I don't stick to them very well but I sure like to make them!  I like to pick goals for myself for New Year's and also for Lent and really any other time that my conviction lines up with a convenient date or time.

I don't know that I have ever stuck with a resolution to the end.  I am not sure what the end is but there I am not.  Maybe that is part of the problem, I am not well defined on what it is I am trying to do and for how long.

You can't imagine how worthy my goal are.  They are so good and so hard all at the same time.  They are things I would like to do to be my best self.  As it is January 1st, the overwhelming desire to resolve to do something is overtaking me and I find myself wanting to make changes but not wanting to resolve to things that are so hard I am setting myself up for failure.

I have heard that small incremental changes are the changes that stick.  With that in mind, here I go:

1.  I will no longer drink diet coke every day.  I know aspertame is bad for me and sometimes after I drink it I even feel bad so I will manage my stress by drinking coffee...at least is has antioxidants in it and doesn't make me feel ill on occasion. I think diet coke once a week on pizza night is plenty.  Man, there is something visceral for me about pizza and soda!

I am really grappling with putting something in here about exercise but that has been an area of my life where I have had the most epic fails regarding resolutions so I am trying to be reasonable and maybe make a step program out of this one.  The bitter irony of it all is that when I make myself exercise it feels better than diet coke. Ok, here it is:

2.  I will do something for my body (physical) 3 times a week.  I am not going to put a duration on it but I will do SOMETHING physical.  I have dreams of yoga and jogging, we shall see.

These are IT!  No more (for now).  I WILL do well with these and then I will evolve to the next two steps.  I don't know what those steps are right now but they shall reveal themselves when I am ready!!!!