So it’s a new year and a new chance to improve our lives. Granted every day is that. So since we’re in a looking back sort of mood let’s start off with making the first and probably most important resolution for the whole year:
EVERY DAY IS A NEW START
If you have a goal you want to meet during the year. And you fail to meet it for one week, guess what start again.
Every culture in the world has observed the basic premise that we all fail at doing things, but it is the process of starting over that and getting better, doing it again, finally succeeding no matter how much you have failed that defines true success.
Starting weight loss resolutions is probably silly in the middle of winter when your body is making brown fat to keep you warm (which may be helpful in the long term but in the immediate you’re not going to shed the pounds)
But you know what instead of pointless bullshit like losing weight (yes it is pointless because being healthy is what you really want, and you know the easiest way to be healthy, to fill your time with something meaningful not just going to the gym and watching what you eat).
So let’s focus on some important things:
Call an old friend
Read at least one book a month
Find a charity to help with
Engage in your faith more
Journal
Say something nice to at least one person a day
Get a new hobby
Take a vacation
Or in my case, get back to blogging.
Quite frankly just pull out one of those sappy posters on life advice and do as many of them as you can.
Do things that actually fill your time instead of just passing it.
And again just accept you will fail to meet your new goal for a day, a week, a month. It doesn’t matter if you go a whole month screwing up everything you hoped to accomplish, the only thing that matters is if you start again.
For me this year is about being more positive, about planning ahead more, and about getting shit actually done. Far too often I have an idea at the last minute, that leads to stress and negativity and it means I never finish anything. This post, for New Year’s resolution was actually written in August. It’s a lot easier this way. I can write about what’s on my mind, go back and add things as they come up and am not desperate to come up with something to fill up space. It also forces me to talk about things that are more timely, not just reacting to whatever stupid and other pointless story is in the news but to focus on what really matters.
Other than that here are some other pieces of good news from over the last week to keep you in a good mood.
The Conservative New Ager 