New Year’s Day has arrived and it’s time to make some resolutions for the coming year. Goals. Objectives. Plans or projects. A list of ideas. Whatever you want to call it, something to cling to and review next new year’s Eve.
Before I set about this task, I decided to review the status of current goals. My first thought is that it was too bad I didn’t do that earlier. Like…February. I had three goals and I, unfortunately, met none of them. I called them objectives, but that didn’t seem to matter.
The first goal was to write a poem every day. I will be able to tell you how many I actually wrote, once I finally find the “Poem-a-Day” book in which I was writing. It’s somewhere in the house and when I ever find it, I will write more. Maybe. But let’s say I wrote 30. That seems like a fair guess and so I met 1/12th of that objective.
The second objective was to increase my daily average step count to 7500 a day. According to my phone, I met that objective in February, March, May, and June. So one-quarter of the year. But my phone is old and not always reliable, so I’m going to say it was more like half. Or three-quarters. And it likely would have been more if I hadn’t had a sinus infection for the entire month of September and then got stomach flu (norovirus – nasty stuff) after Christmas.
The good news on that objective is that I lost 7 pounds. Which wasn’t officially the objective, of course, and a terrible way to lose it (illness), but still. Really, why walk more if not to keep healthy? So there’s that.
The final objective I set for myself was to re-engage in my daily practice of yoga or tai chi.
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I’m sorry for the break. I had to stop typing to laugh myself out of the chair. That just didn’t happen. And it was a sensible, practical, helpful goal to have. It. Just. Didn’t. Happen.
Now I’m staring at my computer thinking “What in the world will I try to accomplish in 2024?”
Naturally, I began my research on this on the internet (not usually a smart or dependable source of information). However I found some suggestions for worthy objectives for the upcoming year. They were as follows (from joincake.com):
- I will love myself as much as Lizzo loves herself. I would try this if I knew who Lizzo is.
- I will pick fewer internet fights. Yay! I’ve already mastered that. At least, I try not to pick any.
- I vow to communicate exclusively in memes. Again, as I don’t know who to communicate in memes…or what, exactly a meme is….
- I will be unashamed about the fact that I wear pajamas in public. I never wear pajamas in public.
- I will run a half marathon backward. I will never run a half marathon, or even 60 feet, in any direction.
- I will attempt to finally learn how to stand on my head. And break a hip? Not happening.
- I will dance like no one is looking when I’m in a public place. I’ve done that already. Wasn’t pretty.
So that was no help. I’m stuck with a blank page, so my only resolution is to take a week to think about it and come up with some by January 10th. Or 12th. Any suggestions?
My suggestion would not be viewed well by many.
My pledge (or resolution) would simply be to
think, act and BE more like Jesus!
His resolution was always to keep the main thing the main thing
and that was to serve God the Father faithfully and always!!
My hope is that I will do that very thing moment by moment!!
But, everyone does “their” thing now!
One resolve is enough to handle for me!
Love ya and the posts still need to go viral!!