New Years Resolution Review
Its one week since the first of the year. How many of your resolutions have you kept? Really kept? Really?
The number of blog posts about resolutions last week, while understandable, points out the inherent weakness in making resolutions along with the crowd: the artificial outweighs the need. If you have to make resolutions, you will.
Then you can compare how long you keep your resolution against everyone else and feel popping-proud that you outlasted everyone in keeping your resolution…until February 1st. When what was resolved is still not done.
I do some things at the end of the year, of course:
- I balance my stock portfolio to make sure I am staying on track. It is an arbitrary time, but if I’m fortunate, I get the Santa Claus Rally in December and reinvest the right way to get the little blip up in January.
- I list all of the things that my family and I have accomplished during the preceding year. It is easy to focus on the negative and not realize how much change you went through and what you did that made things better for you and your family.
But not New Year resolutions. Too much going on. Too much pressure to get into the swing of resolutions du joir. Too easy to let them go.
No, I make my resolutions at the time reserved just for me: my birthday. There is that marking of time that comes with a birthday. One that can give you a much greater sense of urgency to accomplish what needs to be done. A time when there is no “resolution frenzy” so there is less pressure to just make up some resolution.
Birthdays are a great time to reflect on your life and your needs. That is when I make my goals for the coming “birthday” year and resolve what needs to be done.
Not when I’m wearing silly party hats that don’t do justice to the Pimp I Am.
