New Year's Resolutions...

[fajrdrako]

Some people don't like New Year's Resolutions. Many consider them futile - frustrating because no one keeps them for more than a few days or weeks in to the new year. If that.

Myself, I love them. In fact, I love them so much I keep making them all year - re-analyzing them and re-prioretizing them regularly. It's like an ongoing experiment. It's like a game. I revise the list, I refine it, I play with it; maybe half gets abandoned, maybe half becomes part of my daily life. it evolves. I've been doing this for several years now, as a sort of ongoing project to save myself from the illness and depression that was consuming me.

Now, I don't know if it's conscious effort that has made the difference, or dumb luck, or hormonal dice-shots, but my life has improved so much that I am incredulous. I didn't believe I would ever achieve this level of happiness again. It has nothing to do with my circumstances, which haven't changed.

The list composed on January 1st has a special symbolic significance. I wasn't going to post my New Year's Resolutions this year, because they are more than usually personal... or, rather, more than usually important to me. But then I thought, what the heck: no one will understand the more personal angles, which are psychological anyway.

So here you have it: my official list of 2006 resolutions:

1. Follow fitness program, including weights and yoga.


2. Get sufficient sleep. (This is the really difficult one.)


3. Write.


4. Floss teeth daily.


5. Keep dishes washed.


6. Enjoy life.


7. Be mindful.


8. Live without greed or envy.


9. Dance every day.


10. Finish what I start.

That last one is thanks to maaseru, who found it in a list of prayers for INFP personalities: "Dear God, please help me to finish what I...." Don't even ask me about the hundreds of WIPs on my hard drive.

For the time being, "be mindful" means: don't be scattered; focus on priorities.

Comments

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid my attitude is usually Jerome K Jerome's to work - "I love work. I can sit and watch it for hours." I make them but usually don't keep them.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm careful to only make resolutions I know I can and will keep - I like having goals to stive for.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of things like "Keep dishes washed"!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That's a nicely practical one! And therefore a challenge to me.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

And an example of the kind I make and don't keep...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I've made it - I have every intention of keeping it! Excuse me, I have to go do things in the kitchen now....