Well, with the New Year comes an innumerable amount of resolutions from people.  I’ve heard them proclaimed in all shapes and sizes. “In the new year, I resolve to….. quit smoking, exercise more, lose 10 pounds, learn French, be a greater success at my job, buy more sardines, build a Lego replica of the Mona Lisa….” … and on and on.

It seems that I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions.  About 10 years ago…. I resolved never to make another New Year’s Resolution.   And by golly. It is the only one I’ve kept.

I’ve gotten a lot of emails asking about my list of resolutions for this year… so here is the bulk answer.
Again. Nadda.

That’s not to say I won’t try to be a better person in the year to come. I make that promise to myself every day. Some times I keep it. Other times…. not so much.  But that is what I shoot for.

It is a bit like driving on snowy or slick roads. The experts always tell you… if you start to spin out…. look toward the direction in which you want your car to go. If you do this… a lot of times you will instinctively steer yourself down the right path to a good outcome. But if you jerk the steering wheel in the opposite direction of your momentum… your spin will continue.  You’re wrecked.

Look to the place where you want to go. That is the direction you will travel. That is where you will head.

I know that when I have ended up in a ditch… is normally my own fault. It happens when I’ve steered myself there.

Stay on the road. That’s my advice to myself. If it happens to be the one that is less traveled… that is okay.  If it is the long and winding one… that is okay too.  Just so long as I stay on it.

So. That’ is my ongoing plan.  Be a better person each day.  To be kinder, more accepting, and to have a generous heart.

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.. …. .. especially when I think someone is being a total idiot.   (NOW do you see why I am pretty dreadful with resolutions?)

“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”
Cavett Robert

“The way out is the way through.”
L. Ron Hubbard