The beginning of the new year, all that excitement for basically nothing and just another set of numbers people will set out to look meaning in. Most importantly, they will set out to making new year’s resolutions.

I also made numerous resolutions throughout the years — start running, stop eating, stop wearing makeup, wear makeup, be nicer to people, learn how to say no, forgive, forget, stop forgiving, make to-do lists, cross things off lists, start working, stop working for a while, sleep less, sleep more and so on.

I finally realized these resolutions are in no way life decisions but more like reflections of my current mood and lifestyle. And with most millennials being bipolar, you can easily understand why new year’s resolutions rarely ever work. Ephemeral as they turn out to be, they make no sense anymore.

And finally, eureka! I don’t need better plans, decisions and executions. I need a better me. I don’t need to-do lists, I need to do stuff. I don’t need to start running or stop eating, I just need the result. If I don't accomplish it right away, I'm likely to give up and feel like a failure. New year’s resolutions are designed to make you feel miserable.

Having this in mind, I’m making my new year’s resolutions 2.0 — A resolution a day rather than one set of resolutions for the whole year. This will help me keep track of my plans, wishes and mood and create closer, easily obtainable goals. This will make me enjoy my results every day and feel unaccomplished and dissatisfied for a day rather than the whole year. With a resolution every day, I have the possibility of changing something much more often than once a year.

These resolutions will make up for a diary of success and failure, thoughts and plans, notes and drafts. These resolutions tied together might just remind me of why I don't need a better me in the future but rather a better me in the present.

1/1/14 resolution — Publishing this Medium post.