My last post meandered. It should be seperated into three and will be. Will keep the original because I like it.
Don’t remember ever really making New Years resolutions. I make goals; therefore if I don’t make the whole goal by the end of the year, or never make it, I don’t feel guilty. If I have taken steps to make the goal come true, I consider it a success.
Don’t know if other people do that also or if I’m in denial. Is putting a plan into action enough? I can see that as being enough in something, like uh, writing a book. But if I set a goal to lose 30 pounds and lose ten is it cheating to say I have reached steps toward my goal?
Am also trying to decide how often I should post. Since my posts tend to be long, and meander, I think three or four times a week should be sufficient. Have much else to do, and since I had a taste of what most people call a life over the holidays, I became enraptured with socialization. Something I used to be good at.
Now I can talk about blogging and politics and have no desire to talk about either. It’s sad; I used to be such a friendly person. Want to be me again; am working on it. That’s an achievable goal; I just know it.
sounds like a reasonable way to do it. better than my way, which is just to not make resolutions at all… or at least, none specific to the new year.
anyway, happy new year hon!
It’s weird to have such a sense of self attached to blogging and then have a whole other existence in the “real” world. One is not necessarily more real than the other, but that doesn’t mean they are mutually exclusive either.
It’s weird how if I spend a whole lotta time blogging, I tend not to socialize with IRL people. Then when I get all socially with IRL people, I don’t feel like blogging.
Resolutions are made to be broken. Goals, now there’s something to work towards.
Resolutions are just a BS social fabrication and mean nothing. What you just described, setting goals and taking things step by step, is the only way to go… it becomes a more realistic and attainable goal. With resolutions the goal is idealised, therefore less attainable and a setup for failure.
I agree! I agree!
I usually forget to make resolutions until the 4th or 5th of the month, and by then I’d alreayd broken the resolutions I would have made, so… no resolutions.