A lot of us make resolutions for the New Year. Did you make any? How are you doing on those resolutions?

Yeah, me too.

So today, since it is the first day of May I am hereby instituting the “May Day Resolution”. You are invited to participate and are most welcome to do so.

I don’t think May Day resolutions should simply be revisions or reincarnations of the New Year’s resolutions as that would be too easy. No, these should be different.

Since May Day is the celebration, in many places, of the coming, of the rite, of Spring and since Spring is a time of renewal then that is what any such resolutions should be based upon.

May Day is the day of the renewal resolution.

Sound trite and silly? When was the last time you renewed yourself in some fundamental way?   When was the last time you ever really tried?

I have tried but rarely ever done. I have always wanted to change certain fundamental things about myself but have done little more than think about it or have only given it a short-lived effort. Today is the day when I choose to do more than that. Today is the day that I begin to work on the me I would like to leave as my own legacy and memory to the world or at least to my own family.

You don’t really need to know what my resolution or resolutions will be; just be ready to meet and greet a changing me and one that I hope you will like just a little bit more than the old me. I know that I will.

I will become the me I have always wanted to be but just never worked hard enough to become.

Some of the choices for me (though you’ll not know which ones I am resolving to pursue you will hopefully be able to tell a bit more, over time, as I pursue them):

• Be more positive and complain less (except about the government and it’s occupiers)
• Be a better example to my kids; guide and lead them
• Be more efficient and get more done
• Work out more, eat less (this has to be a part of any such list)
• Get better sleep
• Forgive more often and more sincerely
• Welcome each day of life as a gift from God
• Become a writer (does any of this count?)
• Become a better husband
• Relax and enjoy life, enjoy the moment
• Be less critical and less judgmental (except about modern culture…and the government)
• Do more to help others

Well, check back at a later date to see how I am doing and please wish me luck.

And let me know how you are as well. And good luck!