Yeah, I know what you are going to say. “What is with the underpants theme?” Truth is, I am using something called an attention grabber. The definition of attention grabber is…. Well….self-explanatory!
Anyway, the real topic of this month is New Year’s resolutions. “I am gonna get in shape this year,” “I am gonna quit smoking,” or the one that many of us are glad that didn’t happen, “I am going to get a health reform bill passed by the end of the year.”
Why do people look at a calendar to make a drastic decision in bettering themselves? To me, using January 1st is just a useless excuse to keep postponing improvements to ourselves and our quality of life. It is a cop-out. Using a date for anything of that nature is just time wasted.
Then again, we have all been guilty of this. We follow the notion that the New Year can also be a new beginning, our special date of “inner reincarnation.” Hey, I like that, I think I am going to go hug a tree. My liberal sister can school me on that one. (INSERT FROM LIBERAL SISTER: Sure, bro. I’ll school ya. Start with a cactus.)
I believe approaching improvement to one’s self takes determination, motivation, and execution, not a date, a time or even a place.
I am getting pretty good at this hippy jargon. Next thing you know I will be dancing with Michael Moore at an ACORN office.
OK, scratch that. I am having really bad pictures of that in my head now.
Today is just as good as any, my friends. Tomorrow you are a day older, and you won’t get yesterday back. There is not a required date or time for improvements in our lives. Then again, time is always ticking by, so get out there and create your own resolution, just don’t label it “New Year’s.” Get it going whether it is losing a few pounds, stopping smoking, or even ending the madness of being addicted to table tennis with an Irish Urologist that uses a lithotripsy remote as a paddle? I think it is time to step away from this keyboard now...
Trey Jones is an auto mechanic, a personal trainer, a group exercise instructor, a moderate republican, and spends too much time thinking about iguanas.
