New year, new beginnings...really???

Close up of frost on our window.

It's a new year and a time to take stock, make resolutions, and set goals. What a bunch of bunk! Why do we only take a close look at ourselves on January 1st? Change can happen any day of the year if we really want it. I see this happen every year in my yoga classes. Just like clockwork, come January 1st, my classes swell to enormous proportions with students who will exercise with drive and commitment for all of two months then drop from the face of the earth. Don't get me wrong, there are always a couple of students who find in that experimental period that they love yoga and will stick with it the whole year through but they are a very small minority.


Why don't we all resolve to take stock of our lives once a quarter or once every other month? If there are changes we want to make, we can gradually make them while continuously aware of our end goal. This way, maybe, the changes that we make will be more lasting and have more value than those that are made in haste once a year and last only two months.