Tagged with: new years resolution
I've learned that my control freakiness stems from fear; fear of the unknown, fear of exposure, fear of failure. I lessen the fear by controlling the outcomes (or trying to). An example of this, although comical now, was my idea of how to avoid divorce: never get married.
Most of my new year's resolutions fail miserably. I think they fail because they're the same every single year (work out, eat healthy, blah blah blah). Not bad goals, but there is nothing measurable about "I'm going to work out more." How often? Where? When?
Because of the lack of success with my earlier resolutions, in January of 2011 I decided to pick something very measurable: give up reality TV. Yep, all of it. I'm not proud to admit this, but I was addicted to Keeping Up With The Kardashians. I don't mean I would watch it once in a while if it was on and I was channel surfing, I mean I would record every episode, watch it, save it, and re-watch it.