It's that time of year again - time for the New Year's Resolutions
New Year's Day - now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
Mark Twain
As most people know, there's a lot of distance between making a New Year's resolution and keeping it. Working hard to meet a goal doesn't always pay off with immediate rewards, but approaching the task with a sense of humor will make the journey more fun.
Some potential New Year's Resolutions include the following:
* Not sitting in the house all day.
* Not sitting in the house all day in pajamas.
* Living in the future instead of in the past.
* Not worrying about the future.
* Watching more TV.
* Using the Internet more.
* Watching less TV.
* Doing more housework instead of playing on the Internet.
* Reading more.
* Gaining weight.
* Bringing a bagged lunch to work to save money.
* Coming up with new excuses for taking time off work, instead of using the same old excuses
every time.
* Remembering to shower and use deodorant every day.
* Taking fewer baths to conserve water.
* Giving up a certain food, such as chocolate.
* Paying more attention to the significant other/hubbie, rather than the Internet.
* Not sending texts to your significant other/hubbie, especially when that person is sitting in the same
room(Isn't that so tacky? When I see people doing that my first thought is - do they actually ever talk to
each other face to face. You know they have communication issues. But I digress.)
* Asking for directions.
* Reading manuals.
* Not repeating jokes or stories over and over at every gathering of family and friends.
* Cutting long hair.
* Growing short hair.
* Not considering others' feelings for once.
Read between the lines on these resolutions, and you'll see that they're not far from the perennial favorites of eating better, getting in shape and spending more quality time with family and friends.
Make some resolutions that are pure fun. Perhaps this is the year that you'll learn French cooking, write a novel, take that dream vacation to Paris or simply act silly. You can use fun resolutions as a reward for meeting slightly more serious goals, or simply build the coming year around them. What matters is that you set a goal for yourself, try to meet it, laugh it off when you fail and then try to meet it again.
But seriously if you want to achieve your resolutions remember the "3 Rs" of resolutions
They should be:
1. Reasonable.
2. Realistic.
3. Rewarding.
That means that goals shouldn't be so lofty that they're unattainable, and planning for them should include ways to both hold yourself accountable and to pat yourself on the back for a job well done.
Every new year people make resolutions to change aspects of themselves they believe are negative. A majority of people revert back to how they were before and feel like failures.
This year I challenge you to a new resolution. I challenge you to just be yourself.
So what's your resolution for this year?
New Year's Day - now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
Mark Twain
As most people know, there's a lot of distance between making a New Year's resolution and keeping it. Working hard to meet a goal doesn't always pay off with immediate rewards, but approaching the task with a sense of humor will make the journey more fun.
Some potential New Year's Resolutions include the following:
* Not sitting in the house all day.
* Not sitting in the house all day in pajamas.
* Living in the future instead of in the past.
* Not worrying about the future.
* Watching more TV.
* Using the Internet more.
* Watching less TV.
* Doing more housework instead of playing on the Internet.
* Reading more.
* Gaining weight.
* Bringing a bagged lunch to work to save money.
* Coming up with new excuses for taking time off work, instead of using the same old excuses
every time.
* Remembering to shower and use deodorant every day.
* Taking fewer baths to conserve water.
* Giving up a certain food, such as chocolate.
* Paying more attention to the significant other/hubbie, rather than the Internet.
* Not sending texts to your significant other/hubbie, especially when that person is sitting in the same
room(Isn't that so tacky? When I see people doing that my first thought is - do they actually ever talk to
each other face to face. You know they have communication issues. But I digress.)
* Asking for directions.
* Reading manuals.
* Not repeating jokes or stories over and over at every gathering of family and friends.
* Cutting long hair.
* Growing short hair.
* Not considering others' feelings for once.
Read between the lines on these resolutions, and you'll see that they're not far from the perennial favorites of eating better, getting in shape and spending more quality time with family and friends.
Make some resolutions that are pure fun. Perhaps this is the year that you'll learn French cooking, write a novel, take that dream vacation to Paris or simply act silly. You can use fun resolutions as a reward for meeting slightly more serious goals, or simply build the coming year around them. What matters is that you set a goal for yourself, try to meet it, laugh it off when you fail and then try to meet it again.
But seriously if you want to achieve your resolutions remember the "3 Rs" of resolutions
They should be:
1. Reasonable.
2. Realistic.
3. Rewarding.
That means that goals shouldn't be so lofty that they're unattainable, and planning for them should include ways to both hold yourself accountable and to pat yourself on the back for a job well done.
Every new year people make resolutions to change aspects of themselves they believe are negative. A majority of people revert back to how they were before and feel like failures.
This year I challenge you to a new resolution. I challenge you to just be yourself.
So what's your resolution for this year?
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I look forward to reading more of your words of wisdom. Your blogs have a special place in my heart and mind, as do you as a human being.
You've been an inspiration to me for the longest time. One of the things I look forward to when I go to Canada is sharing my feelings about you and my other firends with Kathy and telling her how much you've done for me.