I Resolve

This year, I am resolute in resolving that I resolve to resolve to accomplish, improve or change no more than one thing at a time. Make sense? I'm not sure it does to me either, but I think it does. All I know is that I can't say for sure that I've followed through on a single New Year's Resolution in my life. Sure, I've accomplished goals and I've improved aspects of my life over time, but I rarely even remember my New Year's resolutions a week or two after I make them. Doesn't that go completely against the definition of a resolution. Isn't a resolution something I'm supposed to stand firm in? Doesn't it mean I'm supposed to make a decision and stick with it? Perhaps I've had a poor system for New Year's resolving.

Even though I know periodic goal setting and decision making throughout the year seems a more effective route for me, I still feel like I must not let the new year come and go without a single resolution. I considered going the same route as Jared. His resolution every new year is the same--to floss. I mocked him the first year we were married for this ritual. But hey, for the first couple months of every year he flashes the cleanest teeth on the block. Still, I couldn't stand the feeling of defeat, year after year, knowing that once the corner of the new year turned, I'd be giving my annual, repeated resolution a swift kick out the door to nowhere. His is an okay idea and I'm glad he's found a resolution strategy that he's comfortable with, but I've got to come up with my own thing.

I think I've settled on a resolution that will actually work for me this year. So I repeat...This year, I am resolute in resolving that I resolve to resolve to accomplish, improve or change no more than one thing at a time. Now off I go to determine what "one thing" I will be resolute in resolving first.