Impossible Expectations

This is the first year in a very long time that I didn't make any New Year's resolutions. This year I'm not letting myself down by impossible expectations. My resolutions are generally the same every year; eat more healthy, exercise more blah blah blah. Instead I'm going day by day, taking small steps toward my goals and dreams, not overwhelming leaps that take me out of my comfort zone and make me crash and burn out abruptly. What is the definition of insanity? "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing year after year and expecting different results" Zamberletti of the Vikings 

This year I want to do something different, something that gets me somewhere. Somewhere closer to my dreams. I have no idea right at the moment what that something different is but I'm working on it. I do plan on eating healthy and exercising and all that stuff but it's not going to be forced and I'll be more likely to do it. You see, when I have to do something, I don't feel like doing it and I will procrastinate. Oh yeah, that's something I have to work on too, hmmmm, maybe later. Right now instead of having impossible expectations for myself, I'm going to have positive expectations. I think that's much more doable. Instead of dreading this year and all the bad things that could happen, I'm going to focus on all the good things that could happen. It's hard though, when the winter has been so long, ugly and demotivating. I'm just not a winter person. I know there are a lot of you winter lovers out there and that's good for you. I don't ski and don't want to either. I did ski a bit in my teens but at that time I didn't have all the back and neck problems I do now. So it's not appealing to me at this time in my life. I don't like to drive in the winter either or even walk. I don't like to be cold. I like to be warm. It has warmed up to -12C today with no windchill. I hope that's the last of the cold snap. I don't want to go through another winter like this. Positive expectations, positive expectations, positive expectations. I want to move! Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society.  The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.  ~Gil Stern