I've made resolutions in the past and I have never been able to keep them, so now try not to make resolutions. I do how ever have goals that I try to start and obtain. The problem with resolutions is that you want to change or make things better and you want it to start on the first of January, yet by the seventh of January, they are forgotten. My goals always start small. I say to myself if I do this, I can do or get that. Then the next step and so on. I do periodically revise my goals, eliminating the ones that are no longer possible, and the ones that I realize now that I never really needed or wanted or needed in the first place.
I once had a goal of developing a company that had more than fifty employees. Now I realize that that would have been a hassle, cut into my private time, and not allowed me to travel as much as I have. I'm glad that never happened, but along the way I learned what I really wanted in business and life.
I also have a recurring goal of learning to speak Italian, yet every time I visit that county I realize that knowing the little Italian that I have and gesture I can understand and be understood for most everything that I need, while in Italy.
So bottom line, I make and revise a list of goals all the time and strive to take small steps for everything that I want. If you feel that you have to make resolutions, make them small, like my resolution this year will be to make at least one blog post, and if you've gotten this far, you now know that I have fulfilled my New Years Resolution.
PS: as a side note, this was posted on 1/1/11 at 1:11am
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