So how are those 2011 New Year’s resolutions working for you? Every year about this time people start to work on their good intentions for the next year. Hey! What about all those good intentions we had for last year. Did we lose that hundred pounds? How are those guitar lessons coming? Are all the credit cards paid off? Have we remembered to send cards to everyone on those special occasions? In our Bible reading are we getting closer to the end of the Old or New Testament? I know the garage is clean, the fence is painted, the yard is manicured, closets are in order, and we’ve been helping around the house daily. RIGHT? OF COURSE – not. We had very good intentions last year when we set our goals but we aren’t exactly where we had hoped to be at this time. We had hoped to use the adding machine instead of the copy machine on 2012 list but alas here we are.
Most of the time our new year resolutions go something like this:
2005: I will get my weight down below 180.
2006: I will watch my calories until I get below 190.
2007: I will follow my new diet religiously until I get below 200.
2008: I will try to develop a realistic attitude about my weight.
2009: I will work out 5 days a week.
2010: I will work out 3 days a week.
2011: I will try to drive past a gym at least once a week.
2012: I will get my weight down below 230
I’ve decided to make make my November 8, 2011 resolutions to be followed by November 9 and so on because it’s not to late. I may not be able to lose 100 pounds by the end of the year but I can lose 10! I can learn a few new chords and pay off a little more debt. I can send a card to everyone I care about before 2012 “just because”. I can read daily and I have to start over being a better spouse everyday anyway. Good intentions are a daily thing so I, as a fellow pilgrim, challenge us to keep our November 8, 2011 resolutions and November 9 and you get the picture. By the way if one of your resolutions involves Real Estate give me a call.