To my way of thinking, resolutions are just a fancy way of saying promises. Promises I make myself, that I have a hard time keeping. I used to make New Year’s resolutions every year and every year I would not follow through with them. What I was left with was a really great tool to beat myself up with. My brain would be like, ” Ha ha, I told you so. I knew you couldn’t keep your resolution to (insert any usual New Year’s resolution here).” I did however continue making resolutions during other times of the year. That did not work out so good either.

I would resolve -promise myself -to start something, end something, or just do something better, and every single time I would did not follow through. Then the guilt and beating  myself up would start. I still have this habit. I have been promising myself for months that I was going to become active with the Blog Gang again -because it is super fun -and I have yet to do it. I would make sure that I would get the writing prompt from Susie -our fearless leader -over at Mother Hoot, and then still not get around to writing anything for it.

So this is it, I am officially giving up resolutions. For now on, I will make attemptolutions. These are kinda sort of like resolutions, but not exactly. I’m not actually making a promise that I will do something. What I am doing is stating I will at least attempt to do something. Attemptolutions are less rigid, and absolute than resolutions, I am thinking this will be a more positive approach to accomplishing goals than resolutions have been for me.

Right now, I am making an attemptolution to participate in the next Blog Gang activity.