Resolutions

Okay – now that we are a couple of months past New Year’s, I feel more compelled to look at my life and make the appropriate corrective actions (i.e. Resolutions).

I believe resolutions need to be realistic in order to be of any value. For example, I know myself too well to resolve I will ‘love my fellow man’… excuse me; I just spit-up a little in my mouth. You see, that’s not me. I’ll tolerate my fellow man, I’ll take the time to understand “where they are coming from” and what makes them behave the way they do… but I’m not obligating myself to any acts of kindness this year.

Work is always a good place to make corrective changes. I could resolve to work less and enjoy myself more this year… but when I look at my calendar, I don’t really have any weeks available for “work less and enjoy myself” (maybe I can delegate the enjoyment to somebody less industrious).

So what do I resolve? Okay – my five completely realistic resolutions for 2006.

1.) Take better care of my body. Now I’m not cutting out red meat, but I’m willing to eat more fruits and vegetables. I’m not running any freaking marathons, but I bought a bike and I’ll do some sort of activity (not constrained to the bike) three times a week.
2.) Release more creativity. This Blog has been fantastic (I owe Chemical Billy big time). It’s just finding the time to be more creative. I guess this gives me a reason to add number three.
3.) Find some more free time. It’s not like I don’t have tons of vacation time saved up… it’s just that I don’t trust anyone else to do my job as well as I do it. Oh sweet… a self propagating resolution list…
4.) Trust somebody else to do my job as well as I do it.
5.) Blog

We will see how this turns out – for the record, there’s actually a sixth resolution that’s really a given.

6.) Don’t worry if you can’t follow through any of these resolutions, there’s always next year.