When I was younger, I didn't really think about "resolutions." What for? I resolve to make money and have fun! That was about it. But for some reason, as I get older, these resolutions seem to be needed in order to help me focus on things I'd like to accomplish in the future. Maybe I just didn't didn't have a need to focus when I was young, after all, life focused me all by itself. Go to school. Get a job. Pay off your student loans. Simple. Basic.
Now I think I need to put some focus out there in front of me. Big things that need to be accomplished, because I'm not getting any younger, and someday it will be too late for me to do them. Either my brain won't work as well, or my body, or it'll just be curtains completely!
I don't know what I want to accomplish for 2011. Lose Weight. Of course. When have I not been working on that? A few years back my friends and I decided we'd have our own book club, and select books to read and discuss. (We all live in different states, so we'd just get together and have chats online.) It was a great idea...and it never went anywhere. We put for the effort, but we just couldn't get our acts together. I ended buying us all a magnet for the Bad Girls Book Club. (Amazon didn't show the magnet, but they have a print here. (Why they have the photo sideways, I don't know, but it says "Bad Girls Book Club" Where half the group doesn't read the book and the other half doesn't show up.)
Makes me laugh even now because it fit us all perfectly.
Books are big for me. I'd like to read more, but I just don't make the time to do it. I come up with a lot of excuses, but never get anywhere. About 18 feet behind me right now is a wall of books. I'd guess there are about 600 books sitting there, just waiting to be read. (I've read some, but not even 25% of them.) I'd be happy if I could read two books in the new year.
So here I sit and ponder what it is I'd like to accomplish in 2011, and what it is that I actually will accomplish.
What to do in 2011? Does anyone have their list ready to go?
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