It's that dreaded time of year when we look at our lives, and make grand gestures to do it better for less and make more in the year that lies directly ahead of us. The New Year's Resolution! Ick! The biggest thing wrong with this concept is that we never really follow through with them, for reasons we can all justify later.
I clearly see the concept of a new year, a new plan. My problem is that many fail to check in on/update/evaluate these promises made to ourselves. Face it - it's a lot of pressure to change our next 365 days with a few simple promises! Let's make a date to review our promises and our plan every three months instead! We'll call these the New Quarter Resolutions! Losing 50 pounds this year is a huge feat - losing twleve pounds by the end of March doesn't seem nearly as impossible. Trying 75 new recipes in 2013 can feel like a life sentence in the kitchen - five new dishes a month? Easy as pie, or gravy, in my case. Still a little baffled by pie!
So here are my suggestions to help with the New Quarter Resolutions - keep it fun, keep it realsitic, and make it specific - and my own New Quarter resolutions:
I resolve to be more disciplined with my writing. This means I plan to do more to find fun and interesting subject matter and GET IT WRITTEN! I have a plan for my www.examiner.com articles, and I wrote it down!
This leads to my next NQR (as we shall refer to the New Quarter Resolution from here on out!) - write it down! No more relying on my memory. As I get busier throughout the course of a lifetime, I forget stuff. Can't be age related, can it? I don't think so.... Make a list, check it twice, (maybe Santa is onto something here!), cross stuff off! What better way to measure my success than to see in writing what I've accomplished.
Next 2013 NQR: do NOT stop learning! This will be aided by my previous NQR, because everytime I think to myself, "Google that!," I never write it down, and guess what? I forget to Google THAT! So, if I write it down on my list, I will Google it, learn something new, and maybe even have something new to write ABOUT! Oh! I love how this is all working together!
The final NQR is just to be a better person: learn to recognize and accept my limitations, strive to improve what I can and recognize what has to be as it has been dealt, realize the small gestures are as important as the grand ones, and maybe, just maybe, try to stop criticizing bad drivers. Naahhhhh....don't see that one about bad drivers coming to fruition! I'll always critque that!
Let's all check in at the end of March and see how we've done, shall we? Keep in mind that Easter is March 31st, 2013, so no chocolate bunnies to sabotage diet plans until Q2! Don't worry...I've already got it written down on my calendar!
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