New Year's resolutions blog | New Year's resolutions blog
Dec.29.2010
At one time in my life I was trying to learn new eating habits and came across the idea of affirmations for the first time. They sounded like a good idea: Just tell yourself several times a day that which you want to believe. The suggested affirmation was "I am a naturally thin person and I...
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Dec.29.2010
Every year, heading into New Year's Eve, my holiday trifecta of emotional roller coasters reaches it zenith. I begin feeling sad around Thanksgiving when I realize, as I get older, more and more people have left my life. Christmas seems rigged against me as I pull out decorations that are...
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Dec.29.2010
January 3, 2011 brings a new start that involves regular writing!
No tears will be shed as my shiny new shears make their way through the stack of distractions I've become addicted to over the past few years!
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Dec.29.2010
For several years, I have been writing daily short observational pieces I call 'small stones'.
My hope is that writing them will help me to to pay more attention to the world around me.
If I need to write something every day, then I'm more likely to walk around the world with my eyes, ears, nose,...
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Dec.29.2010
I am not a fan of New Year's.
In fact, this is the one holiday I literally dread, often feeling anxious and queasy in the days after Christmas. What some view as a renewal, another opportunity to rectify wrongs and make more false promises, I see as a marker to count away my life. An annual day...
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Dec.29.2010
I used to make New Year's resolutions that had to do with my health. "Quit smoking" was the big one, and then I quit (for the most part - I don't believe in abstinence). One year it was "eat better," and then I discovered that was really a lifestyle choice , as it should be....
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Dec.29.2010
I hereby resolve to start smoking, drink more alcohol, gain weight, lose more hair, go deeper into debt, lose all my friends, divorce my wife, disown my children, gamble my paycheck on one roll of the dice, laze about, lose my job, and end the year bankrupt, homeless, and in poor health, living in...
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Dec.29.2010
So, the New Year is coming up and all, so I figure I need a New Year's resolution. (Well, no I don't, the decision didn't come about because I thought I needed a resolution, the resolution element is just a convenient addition to my decision.)
Anyway, I made a decision, and the idea of telling all...
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Dec.29.2010
The torn wrapping paper is thrown away, the cookies are eaten (and eaten and eaten and eaten!), and it's about time for the fresh page, starting over, the clean slate. For me, since New Years Day is also my birthday, it's a new year in every way. After years of failed resolutions (I'll lose those...
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Dec.26.2010
I'm seriously pondering 2011. Usually, I don't........think, that is. Correction. I mean plan. I am not a great planner. That is, unless there is some particularly exciting event that I'm keyed into. Then, I'm like the finest gold-star appointment book for sale at Barnes & Noble. ...
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