New Year Resolution

I have exactly one New Year Resolution this year: To do the best I can every day.

I debated all of the usual resolutions: be better with my money, get in better shape, take better care of my health, etc. etc. etc. And I realized that really it all boils down to each day between when I wake up and when I go to sleep making the best decisions I can possibly make. This also recognizes that from day to day my best may differ. Some days I may be tired or sick or wore out and what I am able to do to succor myself and others is going to be different than those days when I feel on top of the world. It means being deliberate about the choices I make...is the best choice I can make to eat six of those delicious mini-cupcakes that Kristina brought to my holiday party...or is it a better decisions to much on that crispy organic granny smith apple that I bought down at the Global Market? I understand that part of this will be down right trickery...cuz my brain and my gullet both know that half a dozen mini-cupcakes are sure going to taste a lot better than one nasty old granny smith apple...but in the long run I will feel better and look better and live healthier. I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. And gosh darn it they might make apples taste like mini-cupcakes one day.

But for real though, waking up in the morning and looking at each decision consciouslly as a way to improve myself, my life, and be an all around better person is a way to allow myself to reduce the chaos in which I tend to exist.  Was that last sentence anywhere near grammatically correct?

So, I resolve in 2007 to live each day to the best of my ability to the best of my circumstances and to make the best choices available to me at the moment when I make them. If I do that, I have a sneaky feeling that I might just have my best year ever.