New Year's Resolutions

So another year is here. Big deal, right? Well maybe it should be. One of the great things about being human is are ability to "start-over". Not actually start life over, but we can begin tasks again, and a great time to do that is the New Year. It seems to give us a clean slate, a fresh calendar to check off the days (whether we succeed or fail) and so is born the New Year's Resolutions. Things we hope to change about our lives in the upcoming year.

Goal setting is such an important part of life, whether those goals be big or small. I believe that we must have something to shoot for, otherwise we're shooting at nothing and my experience is that when we shoot at nothing someone usually gets hurt. So set some goals and go for it. Goal setting is entirely another blog, so I won't get into all the details here, but for now just get some ideas down, things maybe you want to change, or add, or subtract from your life. I always like to think big, but somethings can be small.

Now I have to admit that for the past several years I have not made any resolutions, mostly because I felt it was a little bit pointless. What made the New Year so special, I can set goals anytime of year (and often did). But New Years does give us that feeling of a clean slate, so in 2007 my first resolution is to make some resolutions! I've actually decided to set for myself 10 resolutions.

Some of these are big and some are small, some will take place and be over, others will hopefully continue on into future years. Some are very specific and some are just thoughts that I'll have to hammer out details to later. They are in no particular order, time wise or other wise, they are pretty much just as I thought of them. Some have an explanations, some don't. So here they are (I'm sure you can hardly wait) my 2007 New Year's Resolutions!

1. (as previously stated) Write resolutions!

2. Learn and do Tai Chi at least 4 times a week. Christmas of 2005 a friend of mine gave me a Tai Chi DVD and all year I said I was going to start doing it. Well it's 2007 and I haven't started yet. That changes today.

3. Love my wife more. Not that I don't love her a lot now, but I want to find even more ways to express my love to her. This year we will celebrate our 10 year anniversary.

4. Read through the bible.

5. Meet with a mentor twice a month. This is also one of those things I have wanted to do for awhile, so this year I'm committing to it.

6. Read at least 24 new books (or at least new to me)

7. Clean my car and office more often. To say "more often" isn't really fair, that implies that I clean my car and office now. I suppose I should just say "clean my car and office!" And try to keep them clean. (HA!)

8. Make one new friend.

9. Blog once a week. Every Monday morning look here for a new Blog and even if you don't look, I'll be blogging away.

10. Go to Paris, France. As I mentioned earlier, it's my wife and I's 10 year Anniversary and pretty much since we've been married we have wanted to go to Paris. We have had two opportunities through business, and both fallen through. So this year we're going (I hope!)

So there you have it. 10 things that I resolve to accomplish in 2007. Hey one down, 9 to go!