New Year's Resolutions

Hi:

Well, here we are again, at January 1. Got home at 2:30 am last night, and today is, well, going slowly.

Thinking about the new year, as many of us are want to do at this time of year. The holidays create a space for us to gear down from our workaday lives and this provides a bit of perspective.

There seems to be diametrically opposed views to resolutions made at this time of year. Some scoff and distainfully denounce such attempts. They can be quite cynical, and perhaps rightfully so.

The Y and fitness clubs have big jumps in membership in January. I remember being told in the locker room at the Y to be prepared for January. Every machine would be in use and the crowds would make it difficult to do anything. But, not to worry, she said, by the middle of the month the crowds would have thinned considerably.

Yet, I always make new years resolutions, and tend to work through them. Any progress is better than no progress. The key to moving forward to reach your goals is to first list and state your goals and then formulate a workable plan for reaching them.

Now is as good a time as any for starting. I hope, no, plan to make 2006 a memorable year. Working the plan does take effort. Yet it's my observation that those who live lives of quiet desperation are those who are unhappy with their lot but fail to make any effort to change it.

That's about it, I think. If you want to be happy, be happy.

Gotta go and do my exercises:).

M.