New years resolutions...

I have never really been one to sit and set New Years Resolutions, mainly because I don't believe in them as a resolution, if it was renamed as New Years Challenges it might be a different matter. So what is the difference between and resolution and a challenge?

Resolution: the act of resolving or determining upon an action, course of action, method, procedure, etc.

Challenge: difficulty in a job or undertaking that is stimulating to one engaged in it.

So why is it most people who make New Years Resolutions don't do them, or within a couple of days they are no longer a resolution? Is it that the resolutions are just too hard to bring to fruition, or are resolutions just not made into small challenges that are easier to face and do? The one I hear the most of is for people who want to loose weight. The thing I find is that there is no plan put into place before the first of January. It would be the hardest time to loose weight anyway or start a diet or start a training program, as the holidays are filled with family, friends, get togethers, food, alcohol, and hot weather (Southern Hemisphere) when you just want to lounge around doing nothing. 

So then there are distractions in the way of starting the resolutions.
So going forward into 2015 with a clear diary what would you like to do? Will it be a change in your career? Add to your family? Take on a new sporting challenge? Studying something completely new? No matter what it is may it be filled with many challenges, fun, and so much more.

I look forward to 2015 and what ever it brings to me, with new studies, challenges with my job, new friends, old friends, sporting challenges, and everything else that the universe has planned for me.

I also say good-bye to 2014 a year that has been filled to the brim with so much, good and bad. I reached my dream of doing a half Ironman race and the training involved to get there. Daily challenges in my job, challenges with my family, learning it is perfectly ok to gain weight and still look great. Learning to let go of my dream of running a marathon. Saying good-bye to my dear grandmother, whom I miss daily. Surprising myself with my writing. This one isn't a good-bye but more of a, I will see you next year...taking my swimming to the next level, and getting back on my bike, and building my body to meet my sporting goals, and not neglecting it.

If you make resolutions, please change them to challenges, and write your plan so you can meet your challenges and be proud of yourself to reaching them.

Hayley xx