I am not one for New Year’s Resolutions. As a non-believer of them looking in, they appear to be recipes for feeling bad about yourself. · “Lose 20 pounds” – didn’t everyone make that resolution last year, and the year before, and the year before… · “Get my life in order” – if THIS isn’t a promise to yourself that is impossible to keep, I don’t know what is. (How about, instead, “Find a way to comes to terms at least a little bit about the chaos that is my life”) · “Start a new job/new school/new career/new relationship/new beginning” – not everything is in your control. Setting a mile high lofty resolution that will likely be impossible for you and you alone to fulfill (without the forces of nature and chemistry and finances and and and… that it takes to make major changes) – well, that might be being downright MEAN to yourself. And if you are going to be kind to anyone this year, let it start with being kind to yourself. ·