Resolve
With today being the start of the New Year, everyone is making resolutions for he wants to do accomplish in the course of the year. Most of these resolutions fall by the wayside. Typically, I do not make New Year’s Resolutions for just that reason; when I have tried in the past, I generally did not succeed and basically forgot about them by February or March. I believe that most people fail in their resolutions because they tend to make unrealistic claims about what they can actually do. So, I have decided to set a few reasonable goals for myself:
- I resolve to lose 30 lbs. this year. When I break the goal down, that averages out to 1 pound every 1.7 weeks, or 12 days. Dropping this much weight will bring me back down in to the “healthy” region for my height. To acheive this goal, I have gotten my parent’s old rowing machine and set it up in the home office. Going to the gym never worked out well for me and I do not like being dependent on the weather for running or walking, so have a piece of exercise equipment in the house, staring at me and making me feel guilty, should encourage me to actually use it.
- I resolve to write on a regular basis. In the spirit of setting reasonable goals, I plan on posting once a week, a whopping 52 times this year, minimum. If I exceed that goal, then yay me.
- I resolve to actually implement a version of Getting Things Done. I have been talking about it for the past two months and it is high time that I actually got around to doing it. This is a near-term goal, hopefully to be resolved after I finish up remodelling the bedroom.
Here’s hoping that I actually accomplish these over the year.