Resolution Or REVOLUTION?

These last few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to not only start a new year, but to also start school up as well.   Over the break I had a conversation with Kevin, for those of you who don’t know who Kevin is, that Kenzie, my sister; anyway, we were talking about the New Year and she said to me, “so what’s your new years revolution?”… I laughed and said, “you mean resolution, we are not going to war?”.. we had a good laugh about it.  But something kept coming back to my mind, I kept thinking how brilliant she was.  Isn’t that the whole point?  Every year we start fresh, try to pan out old habits and bring in the new ones that we would much rather have.  So instead of a resolution, from now on it will be a revolution.  I’m going to war with myself this year, why?  Because I want to fight old habits, I don’t want to see them again.  I don’t want to be the same person I was last year it’s time to become the person I am destined to be.  The only way you can do that is to {as some say} “fight like hell.”  If we truly want to change, it’s going to take time, effort and perseverance. 

            Normally when it’s the New Year, people make all of these resolutions, the goals that they forgot to do in the previous years, and the goals they want to start fresh.  Well, I’ve decided to keep my same goals that I’ve working on, and add a few small goals in every week to keep it fresh and exciting.  But those aren’t my New Year goals.  My “revolution” is this:

“Quit Regretting, and Start Accepting. Trust in the process.”

            (basically it means that I have to stop regretting what I didn’t do, and start accepting what I did do; to understand that everything, even life is a process.  I have to be patience and understanding.)

            Like I mentioned before, I started school again.  I’m pretty deep into the program I’m going into, and luckily for me, most of my classes are routine from last semester.  I have a lot of the same teachers, and I see the majority of the people I saw last semester in my other classes. {luckily I kinda like a lot of them, so it’s quite entertaining}  As we were talking about what to expect in the class and as the teachers were talking hours and hours on end, I had these moments of inspiration.

                “To be the best you have to TRY, and screw up. But after, make sure you get up, brush yourself off and do it again. Then keep repeating that method until you're successful."

                “Everything in life is do-able, no one said it would be easy. Sometimes it’s hard… but laugh and work hard to accomplish it.  Don’t give up, you are allowed to step back and then continue on, but never quit.  It’s not a big deal to start from the beginning again; go back to what you know, what you’re truly good at. And then, go from there and be the best you can be.”

                Those moments of inspiration happened while we were talking about interpreting.  But I’m at war with myself… it applies perfectly to life.  To EVERYDAY life!  I know for sure my teachers were not trying to preach about life, but I applied it to myself, and I’ve used it every day.

One day after class, I forgot a coat, I was parked in tim-buck-two, and I was in my workout clothes.  Walking out I realized that I could have a crappy 15 minute walk, with maybe some profanity in my head about the weather, or the fact that I didn’t bring a coat, but I decided this- to only say positive things that happened that day, or positive things about the situation.  It went something like this.

·         At least I have a scarf

·         I could be in less clothing, even colder

·         I do have a blanket in my car

·         I could be parked in free parking, meaning I could walk farther

·         I worked out today

·         I nailed my last class

·         Some dude got my number

·         I’m getting an education, and almost done

·         My car is 30 seconds away.

As I continued this, I kept getting more thankful by the second.  Instead of thinking of every reason to complain and be cold, I tried everything to be positive, and guess what, it worked.  I went to war with the “natural man”.  The walk to my car didn’t even seem that far anymore.  I learned a valuable lesson: Positivity always wins.  Negativity is real. And I should remember a coat from now on, since it is winter. 

I challenge you to be better day after day.  To be at war with yourself.  To make goals that pertain to your life HERE and now.  To choose to be positive, rather than dark and negative.  To always remember a coat in the winter, and to find those moments of inspirations that make you better.