New Year resolution

January, named for Janus, the two-faced god, had special significance for Romans. Symbolically, Janus looked back into the previous year and ahead into the ...

[Donna and Paul Ingram, Donna, President of Donna M. In my estimation, 2023 will be a year of renewal and re-invention both personally and professionally. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson I am resolved to do whatever we can do within our own resources to move Mississippi off the bottom of every health care outcome indicator there is. Make up for lost time COVID stole from us and LOVE ON, enjoy and create great memories with as many in our community as possible. I am proud of our efforts to bring films from around the world as well as other arts programs to the Strand Theatre in downtown Vicksburg. As wonderful as our daily routines might be, I find it exciting to create new memories by trying new things. A resolution: A time to thinkm and then act. I stopped doing resolutions many years ago, mainly because they are short-lived. Professionally, I intend to stay open-minded and continue collaborating for best ideas and practices. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, in 1740 created the Covenant Renewal Service, also known as Watch Night services, which are still held in many African American congregations in Vicksburg. Symbolically, Janus looked back into the previous year and ahead into the future and Romans would offer sacrifices to Janus while also making promises of good behavior for the coming year.

With 2022 over and done with, 2023 is right before us in glare and glow. What we make of it starts from now and how consistent and deliberate we are towards ...

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Whether it's starting a new diet, reading more, travelling more or spending less time on your cellphone, New Year's resolutions are always harder to carry ...

“That might look like 30 seconds.” Every day how can you do one per cent to move (closer) to your goal post? Is it getting ready for bed?” “I love one per cent increments. “If you want to start meditating and your goal is to meditate for 20 minutes, what you want to do is find that lowest barrier for entry,” she said. Is it brushing your teeth?

“I don't think there's anything helpful about resolutions that put you at war with yourself.” By Caroline Mimbs Nyce. Photograph of the author Oliver ...

That kind of internal combat never works in the end, because you start to resent the person who’s yelling at you to do all these things—even if that person is yourself. I like the idea that Dan Harris, the meditation writer and podcaster, talks about, which is resolving to do things “day-ish”—the notion that you can make your plan for change a lot more sustainable if it’s not so rigid that one missed day spells failure. It’s the same idea as “the best kind of workout to do is the one you’re actually going to do.” If it happens to not be the ideal physical regimen according to science right now, that couldn’t matter less. Probably many people have done the kind of thing where they are like, I’m going to start being the kind of person who keeps in touch with old friends. I do think that probably one of the pitfalls of New Year’s–resolution culture is that it encourages us all to buy into the idea that you need to make some big change in order to be a minimally acceptable, worthwhile person. What if you were never going to change the thing about you that you so desperately long to change? Otherwise, you get past the incredibly symbolic January 1 date, and it’s like, Well, any hope I had of changing in 2023 is gone; I’ve already failed. Often, it’s basically just a resolution to, like, shout even louder at yourself this year until you finally do the things that you think you ought to be doing. It’s like, “Well, it’s not going to be the year that you transcend the human condition.” Because nobody ever can. I do think that in the culture of New Year’s resolutions, there’s a really heavy dose of perfectionism—a sense in which it’s all about starting completely afresh and being completely perfect in some area of life from this day forward. It helps you get a lot of clarity about which kinds of resolutions are really worth using your precious time on and which are not. Oliver Burkeman: [Laughs.] I don’t think the fact that we’re all going to die means that setting intentions for personal changes is automatically a bad thing.

“It's a new calendar year," said Mandy Doria, a certified counselor at the University of Colorado, speaking with The Associated Press. 'We have a chance to ...

“Rather than New Year's resolutions, one thing that I've loved to do over the years is write a letter to myself at New Year's — the next year (2023)," said Whelan. So maybe you do want to go to the gym and lose a couple of pounds. "Why is it that you want to make a change?"