New Year...New Me?

It's that time of year again. Everyone's ready to put the past behind them and move forward. With New Year's resolutions, we make promises to ourselves, and commitments that we often don't keep. Yet somehow, every year we do it again, as if we've changed and will be committed to keeping our resolutions for the coming year. We tell ourselves things like "its a new year", "a new me", "a new chance to do the things I've been meaning to do," and we continue to ignore the fact that we said this all last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and never in all those years have we ever stuck to any commitments for the whole year. Why do we do this to ourselves? It's really kind of comical actually. We trick ourselves into believing that every year will be drastically different.
Why don't we wake up every day and tell ourselves, "today I'm going to stop procrastinating and get done the things I should get done," and live every day in the moment, instead of staying up one night a year to make promises intended to last 365 days?? I mean who is possibly going to be able to stay committed to something like "eating healthy from now on" or "exercising everyday" or "never saying another cuss word"?? We make impossible promises to ourselves only to let ourselves down! Why don't we just take everything one day at a time, and know that we aren't perfect, and that we are going to make mistakes and have days where all we want to do is eat, be lazy, and cuss out every person we see driving that day? If we could only accept that no one is perfect, and resolutions don't happen over night...
But then again...
America is a country where people will come up with any excuse for a holiday...I guess we might as well have fun with it ;)
I hope for all of you that this is a year for daily renewal& self acceptance! Go out& live your life with love, meaning& purpose! Happy New Years Everyone!
Love,
Haeli