So I posted on my Facebook this week that I've been keeping my New Years Resolutions of not blogging anymore and playing more video games. I found this to be a fine joke. Because, of course, these are not noble resolutions. Nor are they very difficult to keep.
Fact is, I don't really do resolutions for New Years. I don't keep 'em, it turns out. And messing up on your resolution less than 12 hours after making it doesn't do much for my self esteem. Making resolutions of doing something every day or every week or stopping something completely from this day forward isn't my scene anymore. Instead I try to keep an ongoing list of talents I want to develop and things I want to do. If I pull them off that year, then righteous. If I don't, there's always next year. No deadlines on these things.
For example, I still haven't pulled a 360 on a snowboard. I made that goal back when I was first married. I haven't made pasta from scratch, either (well, not from semolina... I don't count egg noodles). I have lead 5.10 sport climbs, though. And I've made cheesecake. I've reproduced. Thrice. My son can now handle some of the bouldering problems in Ogden, so that's something.
A lot of the things on the list are kind of mundane. Graduating college (done), getting a full-time professional job (done), buying a house (close, I hope), getting published in a print publication (not yet, though I've got a little portfolio of online publications). None of them come without effort, though, and for a lot of those setting a one-year deadline isn't feasible. Other's it's downright impossible.
So no, my resolutions don't really include playing more video games and not blogging. On the other hand, they aren't to stop playing video games or blog every day, either. Maybe resolutions work for people other than gym owners and diet book writers, but they don't work for me. By taking the longer view, I save money on home exercise equipment that I can put towards a down payment on a house. So that's something.
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