New Year's Resolutions

I wanted to wait a while until I posted my New Year's Resolution.  Most people have their list ready weeks before the drop of the ball, but by three weeks in they have already failed at half their list.  I believe there are two problems facing people and their failure with these goals. 


First, they make their goals too unrealistic, far reaching goals.  This almost sets them up for automatic failiure.  Yeah, it would be great to make double my income in the next year, but that just won't happen.  Second, people have very little self discipline.  Sure it's easy to create these list.  Just look at what you sucked and put that on the list.  The problem is that they do not create a system as to how they will achieve this.  Recently I asked a friend how they were going to lose weight this year.  They had no idea how to actually do that. 

The Problem With Writing

I have a new commitment to writing.  It is actually a New Years Resolution.  Those list are not something I usually attempt as most people make them too impossible to stick to.  This year being in accountability with solid friends I have chosen to participate in this timeless ritual.  This will be a list I will share with you in my next blog post, however one of the commitments I have made was to write a blog post at least twice a month.


The end of 2010 I was challenged by a friend's writing to look into my thoughts and emotions by putting them down.  This was a short lived habit that I had established in my early college years, but was not focused to continue the journey.  Also I think writing is something that is supposed to be shared as is challenges you the writer and others the reader to grow.  I think that is a reason why I stopped writing, because I was doing it old school in a journal.