Just 2 days left to 2011…if you have unresolved or unfinished business (strictly referring to the 2011 new year resolutions here), seriously how much do you hope to finish or achieve? I have a couple on my list I haven’t strike off but this year – this coming year that is a milestone age for me so I figure I’d be wiser about it. So I’ve come up with a couple of solutions to this annual fiasco and here they are:
- 1. No more New Year Resolution – seems bit cowardly as the only reason I’m saying this is because I know I never finish my list.
- 2. Everything that remains on the list gets carried forward to the new New Year’s List – balance carried forward anyone? Only problem here is I foresee this balance ending up a mountain by the time 3 New Years come along and the list will end up a scroll.
- 3. Everything that’s not checked off gets transferred to my bucket list – same issue with carrying forward, only I get a longer time frame to complete it? Maybe?
- 4. Be realistic about what I’m trying to achieve. The New Year Resolution is supposed to be a commitment to make a reforming habit. –With that said it should be obvious that we should only have 1 on that list because let’s face facts – old habits die hard and there should always be a finite way of measuring the achievement of that goal.
And so after much consideration over one too many cups of Irish coffee, I decided that it’s going to have to be either #1 or #4, the other two are just so obviously excuses to fail. At the end of it, I decided #4 was the winner because while #1 made sense, I’m the sort of person who likes to better herself and resolutions done the right way are intended to make us better versions of ourselves.
So after a lengthy babble…here’s my 2012 New Year resolution:
Stop the beauty wastage.
Elaboration:
The Source of the problem: As a woman, the worse impacts I leave on the environment are likely from my beauty regime. And as the clock ticks on my age, the more elaborate that regime gets. I am sold by the belief that I befriend time – not to the extent that I want to stay looking like a fresh faced 18 year old forever but rather just to age gracefully.
The Bad Habit: I am tireless in trying out products. I bother that it’s too the least an all-natural product but before I’m done with one jar I’ve bought another one, which means I have one too many products for the same function and each gets used maybe 4 times at most.
The resolution performance indicator:
- 1. Start with zero : To give away those one too many products I have to people who would actually use them religiously.
- 2. Replenish with one: Only one jar/tube/bottle to be bought until it is used up.
- 3. Replenish with one with a conscience: So far I’ve been committed to buying only organic or natural based products. But really that’s not enough. It’s hard to get something you like and works in organic so this year I’m going for at least natural but must be animal friendly.
The resolution’s objective:
1. Reduce waste – lighter carbon footprint.
2. Guilt free indulgence – be able to say no animals were harmed to keep this skin soft and supple. Helping animals is always a green thing to do.
So ladies…what’s your one true resolution?
