AskLG

At this time of the year everyone is conversing about their latest and greatest resolution.  They devise this elaborate plan to ensure they actually remember it by years end.  Sure it sounds great and might have even worked, but then you remember a year is 365 days long.  That is a very long time to be dedicated to anything, much less something you’re not good at.

I would love to give some inspiring advice about how you can make it this year, but I’m a realist.  Its just not going to happen.  With that said, I would like to recommend a nice technique to at least make it further into the year.  This method has been passed through from generation to generation and gets lost in translation quite often.  You should use the “buddy system.”  I don’t mean you should have the same resolution as your best friend.  That would be stupid, unless you and your friend were just that similar and equally terrible at the same things.  I mean, you should help your friends stay true to their resolutions by catching them when they don’t follow it and offering support when the temptation to sway is strong.  In return, they should help you maintain yours.  It is so much easier to listen to someone whose opinion you value than to listen to yourself.  So buddy up and maybe, just maybe you’ll make it to summer.

As for me, I would like to enlist your help in making my resolution a dream come true.  I am an extroverted person, constantly conversing and going out with others.  Still I have found I’ve become shy or possibly even alienating when in the presence of individuals I don’t know very well.  Some consider this a typical response to an unknown environment, but I consider it a character flaw.  For 2008, I would like to “be bold.”  Thats a huge statement and can be narrowed down to a niche category like social events, I know.  Instead of narrowing it down though, I’d like to span the boldness throughout my life, touching and embracing every aspect of it.  So if you happen to see me out in Houston or read a post that isn’t living up to the bold potential you deem necessary, let me know.  Without the power of you, I won’t be able to be a better person and that my friends is very bad.

Now that I’ve let you in on my resolution, what’s yours?  I’m interested to see what everyone is doing in the new year and will help you stay off that beaten track however I can.

Tags: bold, commitment, new, New Years, resolution, social, year

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