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IRRESOLUTE

I am sure you won't be surprised to learn that I am not about New Year's Resolutions.

Anything this traditionally entrenched is grounds for rebellion on the face of it.

Beyond the general, I am specifically against an annual goal setting just because it is annual.

I like goals; modest ones.

But don't get me into the impractical or anything that stretches much beyond a month or two.

Plans, sure.

But the onus of NYResolutions is so strong that they become punishing yokes to drive us in a direction which may, in fact, turn out to be the wrong one.

I like to improvise.

I like situational management. I even had a company by that name I felt/feel so strongly about it.

I get my guidance from meditation and feedback. Or the other way round. And act accordingly.

When I was a gym rat, we used to laugh at the annually resolute fatties and flabbies who came in to do their best the week after New Years and then were seen no more.

I cannot even imagine the pain of that kind of failure. It has to be a deterrence to any trial thereafter.

Anyway, you get my point.

I will not be drawing up any lists this year or any other.

It is bad enough that we single out the day as a holiday when, in fact, it is an imperfect mathematical construction from the natural cycles of the sun and moon.