Do you make resolutions?
Do you make resolutions for the new year? I don't. This doesn't mean I don't make resolutions…I do it, I just figure if I'm going to make a change, I'm doing it when I decide I'm making the change. If I procrastinate on a change? I won't make the change come the new year. I'm doing it then or it's not happening.
Like facebook. I was fed up and tired with the timesuck so I deleted the 2800+ friends and moved the author page. Same with goodreads. Removed all friend connections. Decided I'm spending too much time with the biz of being a writer instead of being a writer. Didn't see the point in waiting until 2011 to make that change. Started it when I saw the problem.
Back in November 2009, there was another problem-one that had been creeping up on me for me years-to the problem of oh… 80+ pounds. I wasn't waiting until January 2010 to do anything because I finally had the resolve to make the change then and I'm down 60 pounds.
The problem with me and resolutions, if I'm determined I'm going to do something? The way I procrastinate, I don't see resolutions as goals or deadlines the way some people do, I guess. It's just another thing to put off.
So I make resolutions, but it's not a New Years thing. It's an immediate thing. If I'm going to make a change-it's a now thing. And generally, those are the changes that have had the biggest impact on my life (and my sanity).


