Just Do It!

I don't believe in New Year resolutions because every year, when people try to make them, in the end they always break them. I have made a lot of New Year resolutions myself. I usually sit down and write all the things I want to accomplish in a piece of paper. I end up accomplishing about 5 to 15 percent of what I wrote down, and I have never got to a 100 percent, nor a number close to half. So this year, I decided not to make any New Year's resolution but instead I decided to put to heart Nike's famous commercial tag: Just Do It.

It is senseless to make promises that we can't keep. What is more sensible is to make a list of things we want to accomplish daily so we could set specific goals for ourselves and be realistic. Personally, it is easier to worry about the things we could do today than worry about the things we want to do in the future. A wise philosopher has once said, "the future will worry about itself." We have to live for today because tomorrow might never come. So, resolutions are in part, senseless. It gives us unneccessary burden. We can dream, yes. We can also have an ambition. I know that it is important to have goals. But these things should not enslave us and be the guiding force in our lives. Dreams, ambitions and goals are nothing compared to what is really in store for us. I learned that God has special plans in our lives. Let He be the guiding force to rule over our actions every single day, and without us knowing it, our future will be well secured in Him. We just have to believe in his Words alone and accept him alone as our personal Savior. There would be no need for worldly resolutions that would only satisfy our ego. These resolutions are not as important as what God wills for his faithful believers.

I don't mean to say that we should all be laid back and have no plans at all. I don't mean to say that we should laze all about and be bums all our lives. We can't wait for things to happen. God can't make it happen for us if we don't get up and move. We have to make things happen for us, but with God in the lead. With him, we can never go wrong.

Resolutions are just future goals waiting to happen. The future is such a long time. We can start doing things today, in a perfect Godly way, and the future will worry about itself. We can dream. We can make promises to ourselves. We can have attainable goals. We can just do it, or better yet, we can just do it God's way.