Resolutions

So resolutions. I used to poo-poo the whole resolution thing, but in the last few years, like to-do lists, I've come to like it. I used to think, as someone on my friends page wrote (I can't remember who, sorry) that you were setting yourself up for failure but now, I'm not so sure. Like so many things, the trick is to have the right attitude to the resolutions.

For me, making resolutions has become an aspirational thing. It's what do I want to do with this year? What do I want to achieve? I've been finding that it helps me when I set goals and evaluate them. Evaluating them might involve me deciding that actually the goal was unrealistic or that I've realised it's not really something I want after all, but that's not a problems. It can also give me a boost when you look back and realise how far you've come. If there's a goal I haven't met that I still want then reviewing helps me to focus on why that is and reminds me to think about it and how to achieve it.

Anyway. Enough rambling on. ( last year's resolutions )

And this year's resolutions ( ... )