Happy New Year to all my readers!
No sooner have the festive celebrations finished than we are confronted with those New Year resolutions we made: no alcohol for the month of January, go on a diet, get fit, take up a hobby.
It all looks pretty daunting by the second week of January!
I don't make New Year resolutions any more. I used to. They were nearly always about giving up smoking and/or chocolate. They didn't last. I did give up smoking over eleven years ago but that was due to the realisation that when I retired I wouldn't be able to afford cigarettes. Alan Carr's book on stopping smoking was a tremendous help. And I didn't tell anybody about my intentions - my family didn't even notice, so I mustn't have been grumpy. But it wasn't a "put out the last cigarette at one minute to midnight" affair. I actually smoked my last cigarette at around lunch time on a Saturday afternoon - I remember checking in the morning and thinking, "OK, four cigarettes left, when they're gone, that's it." It was easier than I had thought it would ever be - and I had plenty of practice having stopping smoking when I got married and during my two pregnancies.
Is it worthwhile making resolutions we won't keep? Know thyself! If you are one of those people with a will of iron, then go for it. You'll succeed. I am definitely not disciplined so there's no point in torturing myself. Yes, I will try to lose a few more pounds in weight this year, but I will do it gradually by tweaking my eating habits.
I do have a goal this year. I intend writing a Christmas story, a family story, which I want to publish for Christmas 2018 (I nearly said "this" Christmas but it's next Christmas, isn't it!!)
Wherever you are, New Year resolutions or not, I wish you a good start in 2018!
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