In which I muse upon New Year’s resolutions

New Year’s resolutions are usually pretty useless.

First of all, they are usually statements of a goal. “I’m going to lose 25 pounds this year.” They tend not to have any plan for accomplishing the goal, timetables, or checkpoints. You can keep putting them off and forgetting about them until December comes around again and then, well, it’s too late.

Second, they usually are easy to break. “I promise to be nice to my brother.” The problem with that is that once you break it once, it’s broken. And once it’s broken, there’s no reason to bother trying to adhere to it anymore.

Therefore, I am not making any resolutions.

But still, I have things in my life that bother me; things that I would like to change. So I have set an informal goal for myself this year. I want to spend at least an hour each day doing something I don’t like to do (dishes, studying, exercising, writing, organizing, unpacking, etc.).

Since it’s an informal goal, if I miss a day, no big deal, it’s still there the next day. I don’t have to try and make up days I missed or anything like that. And it’s flexible enough that I don’t have to do the same thing every day but I will make progress on some things that have been hanging over my head for quite awhile.

It has already started to pay off. Besides the mundane things, I have taken care of some insurance issues that I have been meaning to do since I moved up to Wausau. I finally have renter’s insurance. Not terribly exciting, but it’s one less thing on my to-do list.

Oh, and this very blog update is part of this project. I don’t particularly like writing them, but I like having them written. So here’s hoping that this update is the first of a new breed of aberkvam blog updates; smaller and more frequent.