Make a Vapid New Year's Resolution

More fun, less hard

While everyone is making serious New Year’s resolutions and sharing their year’s biggest accomplishments, their awards, the 500,000 books they read, and their weight loss before and after photos, I invite you to make a trivial, ridiculous, and funny New Year’s resolution.

Forget saving money, reading more, journaling, meditating, dropping pounds, or lifting weights. Forget promising yourself you’ll do things you probably won’t. Focus on the small things that make you grin. Then tell as many people as possible about your silly little plans and act dead serious.

Let me give you an example of what I mean.

A few years ago, my New Year’s resolution was to learn to enjoy olives.

Yep. Olives.

I didn’t like them. So I made the resolution, and I ate a bunch of them and now I do like them. (Green more than black.)

Why?

Why not?

I wanted to be able to say that I like all food, that there is no food on earth I don’t like.

I’ve eaten grasshoppers and ants, so why not olives? Olives were the only things I didn’t like, but now I’ve changed that!

I DID IT!

Gold star for me.

Parties and olives go together like…

This year my New Year’s resolution for 2024 is more fancy parties. I used to go to loads back when I worked as a U.S. Diplomat, but then I got boring and tired and bogged down with momlife. Now, I’m making it an active goal, because I enjoy such parties, the kind where I feel obligated to wear pantyhose and makeup, maybe even fake eyelashes. And since I went to only one of these in 2023, I only need to go to two in 2024 to accomplish my goal of more!

That’s it!

I’m telling everyone my plans too, so they think of me when they hear about fancy parties.

So, yeah, feel free to invite me to your fancy parties.

Now You

What will your funny, trivial, easy-to-accomplish New Year’s resolution be?

How do you feel about olives? Lol.

But, P.S. too—if your goal is still to read more books, I have three you can pick from, including two with all five-star reviews.