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One post a day for 365 days, take two

Eureka!I don't know why I said that. My wife decided to laugh at me yesterday, saying she read my entry on how I was going to post at least one entry a day this year. Then she laughed and said it only took me two days to fail. Haha, very funny, yes I failed, everyone look at me. Stick out tongue

How many of you have made a new year's resolution and then found yourself breaking the resolution during the month of January? I'll bet there's a lot of you that have found yourself in this scenario. It's not fun. It's discouraging. And when the next year comes around, I feel less inclined to make any new year's resolutions for fear of failure. I'd rather not make the resolution while secretly trying to improve. Then if I fail no one will laugh at me, but if I succeed then I'm regarded as having self-mastery and being strong-willed. We all want to be achievers, and to be an achiever you have to be a goal-setter, but no one wants to be a goal-setter who fails.

I'm tired of this type of mentality and laziness which I've exhibited in the past. Why isn't it ok for me to fail? Why isn't it ok for me to set a goal and then not reach it? It's not the destination which matters, it's the journey, isn't it? I've thought about this a lot over the past few days. I've decided that these goals and resolutions do matter, that the journey is what's most important, and that when I fail (which I will) what is really happening is that I'm giving myself the opportunity to adjust, to re-evaluate, to re-align, and to set either the same goals or ones which are new and more appropriate.

And as for what I'll be doing with this blog, I've re-evaluated my goal and what I want to accomplish is posting at least one entry a day for 365 continuous days. I think that's a pretty worthy goal. I'm not worried about quality right now. I'll worry about quality once I actually start posting to a consistent schedule. Heh, I'll set another goal right now as well. I'd like to see myself post on improving the quality of my posts before I post the "One post a day for 365 days, take three" entry.

Published Monday, January 21, 2008 10:36 PM by kelly
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