Happy 2011. It's a new year. I had so much enthusiasm and positive feelings for the future. Mostly for the business end of my life. All the little ideas I've had going through my head these last couple of months, I've actually held back so I could implement them for the new year. Well, the new year has come and I think I exhorted the whole years worth of energy into the first day. Unfortunately, that fell on a Saturday, so nothing really got accomplished! Now I look at the whole rest of the year ahead and it makes me a little tired. I know a person, who, on New Years day, takes the day to contemplate the exhausted year, and inventories whether or not he is still basically on track for his life journey. He does not make resolutions for the new year, but instead, he makes 5, 10, and 20 year life goals. He puts all of this into a journal along with thoughts, ideas, and clippings from whatever source he finds that inspire him, or helps him stay on track. New Year day is when he has the time off to go through his journal and tweak it here and there. It's a great idea. He has been quite an accomplished person. I say has, because his empire took a bit of a tumble, which had nothing to do with the point I was making. It certainly wasn't in the journal to go bankrupt. I don't do resolutions well. I should give them up. I should quit wasting my time with them. They almost always involved dieting, exercising and a scale. They always fail within a couple of weeks, and I pick the goal back up later on the year when I do it more for myself than for a date on the calendar. Which, by the way, I am successful every time. Later in the year, I put all the weight back on, so I will have something else to work towards for the next year, which I am also 100% successful. Two years ago, in my attempt to be more "zen", my resolution involved making an effort to watch either the sun rise or set every single day. Yeah, okay, ha ha. It really only lasted less than a week. When the sun rises after 7:00 am and sets before 5:00 pm, there's not always the chance to even try, then throw in the "I really don't care like I thought I would" attitude, and there you have it. Failure. Seriously, this year, I will keep it simple. Treat others with more respect and kindness. And maybe I should have another one; to learn how to run my business once and for all, just so I can still feel good about not accomplishing something.
