Resolution or Evolution?

Needleless Christmas trees line up on the sidewalk graveyard, reminding pedestrians that holiday indulgences are over. The gyms are packed. Commercials are advertising diet friendly meals. Magazine covers are promising 10 days to a flatter stomach. Facebook is twittering with status updates proclaiming that your friends are cleaning out their junk drawers and forgoing that extra glass of wine on Tuesday nights for yoga. Come March all will be back to normal making me rethink the entire meaning of new year’s resolutions. January seems to be awkwardly filled with empty promises to becoming a "new" you. How about though all of the good things of the old you? Instead of setting up huge promises that will become Post-Its of the past, why not look to January as a good time for evolution? I think awareness and most importantly, self awareness is the key to living your best life, evolving into your best self with each year. Instead of trying to do that all at once in January, getting overwhelmed, bored, and craving a Twinkie, why not do that throughout the year in a gradual pace? If anything, maybe we will all transition better into the long month of January without the crankiness. Here's the good news, evolving or not - Valentine's Day is right around the corner (hello...chocolate?)