Spoiler alert: I failed at 2021 new year (new month) resolutions. Here’s what happened instead: Covid Divorce Move Left job New job New friends and renewed friendships Travel Dating Single-momming Love Loss Journaling It’s been a journey, and it’s not been easy. But the learnings have been rewarding, if not painful to face. I don’t…
Category: Attempts
A How to Guide to Declutter Your Photo Library
After a fairly simple and super rewarding January challenge, I rolled into February 1 cocky, and trusting I’d find equal if not greater satisfaction in the challenge I was about to tackle. That held true for this month’s workout challenge, but the mind challenge — in this case a decluttering exercise — was far from…
Jumping into January with Daily Flossing and Exercise
January 31. I’ve completed my first new month resolution: daily flossing and exercise (Kelly Attempts? Kelly Succeeds). We’re only in January, but I’ve got unrealistically high hopes that by changing up my resolutions every month, I won’t get bored. This is what happened in January: I flossed every day and it was amazing I exercised…
How It Got Started: A One Finger Salute to New Year Resolutions
New year’s resolutions are absurd. The whole premise of committing to a new habit, new diet, new hobby you haven’t fully tested is a recipe for failure. Yet every year, 189 million Americans make a new year’s resolution, and then 93% break them. My best friend* has never broken a new year’s resolution. She’s one…