Via Cranky Fitness
Think about it: We all make New Year’s resolutions, and we mostly make them about things we’d like to accomplish but think will be at least slightly unpleasant to do—like losing weight, running a mile in under eight minutes, or finally keeping the car clean. The word itself, resolution, implies that what we’re undertaking will be difficult or fraught with setbacks. It’s a flinty and stalwart word that makes you straighten your spine and set your teeth. My pal doesn’t roll that way.
Instead, she looks at the end result and calls it a gift. To herself. Which blows my mind.
If you look at your goal as a gift, the process of reaching it suddenly becomes much less complicated. The guilt over bobbles on the road to getting there disappears, the goal is cast in a much more positive light. Rather than being a resolution, or something you have to do, it becomes, well, a gift: something you give yourself because you love yourself.
