So, here it’s been over 2 full weeks since I made the pledge to keep things moving around here without a single post… My apologies. If you’re like me, and most others, you’ve spent some time in the last couple of days thinking about the past year, what is coming in the new year, and promising that 2008 will be the year that you actually follow through on all of the resolutions you keep repeating year after year. I admit I’ve done the same. This morning, though, I came to another realization. I’ve determined why I think I continually fail to execute my resolutions.
The resolutions that I repeat every year (get in shape, quit smoking, be more organized, etc.) are all not simple actions. They are lifestyle changes. Making changes in your lifestyle largely depends upon changing your priorities and outlook on life. What I’ve realized about my life is that the changes I need to make take place and effect a much longer scale of time that I am typically concerned with. Most of the time, I am focused on the next coming event…. the next project, the next action, the next vacation, the next holiday, the next immediate goal. So focused is my concentration on this next event that I often fail to see how that affects my larger vision. I get the distinct feeling that if I could think in terms of my larger vision all of the time, I could eliminate the tendency toward laziness and convenience that is the downfall of my noble resolutions year after year and put priority on the changes to my life that will make a long term impact and keep me from repeating the same things in 2009.
So with that, I declare the most crucial of resolution statements for 2008. This will be the year that I focus on my vision of the future; this year I will focus on the big picture and lend priority to my long term goals.
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