New Year's Resolutions, 2007...

[fajrdrako]

My 2007 New Year's Resolutions

I've greatly enjoyed composing these. It doesn't really matter if I "keep" them, the reason for the exercise is thinking about how I live and how I want to live.

1. Live a yoga lifestyle, compatible with a fannish lifestyle.

I'll have to work out what this means, since I have found that some of the values of yoga and some of the goals of being a fangirl are incompatible. For instance, what does one do when, though trying to be non-acquisitive and non-materialistic, a magazine comes out with an article on Torchwood on the cover?

2. Practise tai chi with sword.

I once took this as a class, but I've forgotten the moves. So I got a video-tape: Tai Chi: The 32 Sword Forms with Dr. Paul Lam. I plan to do this on a regular basis. Learn how to tell my left foot from my right, that's the first step.

3. Daily language study.

Not much, but if I read or write in another language for a little while each day I should be able to progress. I'd like to be able to read Latin easily again; or Esperanto; or even just French. Perhaps I will try to read all of Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis. I wonder if I could translate an episode of Torchwood into Latin.

4. Write.

I always want to write more than I do. I always feel better - about myself, about the world, about everything - when I write. Must do it more.

5. Be true to myself.

6. Discard one item per day.

I did this in 2005, and I felt magnificently decluttered. I didn't do it in 2006 and things have piled up. So! Time to do it again.

7. Do Lynne's programme with weights.

Lynne is my trainer. She has worked me out an excellent tailor-made workout with weights that I can do in my living room, Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. I want to do it, and do it right. Current plan: to do hatha yoga or pilates on the mornings I am not doing Lynne's workout.

8. Develop a focussed attitude to work.

9. Be orderly.

10. To do daily: make the bed as soon as I get up; drink kombucha; floss; take pills; smile; dance.

11. Live without fear.

12. Carpe diem.