What's this all about?

I recently read an article about the top 10 resolutions that people make every year. Apparently many people make the same resolutions every year, and few, if any of them, are ever achieved.

I've been there. We make the grand, large scale resolutions, setting ourselves up for failure long before the calendar year ends. It stinks.

So this year, instead of expecting to disappoint myself, I've developed a new approach. I've been referring to it as my "Year of Resolutions" (hence the name of this blog). The plan is to pick out my Top 12 resolutions, and then devote myself to one each month. I'll journal my efforts as I go, and attempt to document it with photos as well. (I can't promise that there will be photos with every post, though. I live in the boonies with no DSL - photo hosting sites aren't always cooperative.)

I know that I'm not so great at long-term resolutions, generally speaking. Apparently a lot of other people also have the same problem, or else we wouldn't be making the same resolutions every year, right? BUT, I can agree to do almost anything for 28-31 days in a row. They say it takes doing something every day for 21 straight days in order to make it a habit. If I set small goals of doing AT LEAST one thing to contribute towards each resolution, then I'll get the instant gratification of completing that task as well as working towards fulfilling a long-term goal. And maybe somewhere in there I'll teach myself some positive new habits. :) 

It should be a win-win situation.

(P.S. I started this as a hand-written journal on December 31st, 2008 - but I've gotten a callus on my finger from my pen, and the beginnings of what I'm convinced is carpal tunnel syndrome from all the handwriting. So I'm giving in and putting it on electronic format - in which case, you might as well make it a public blog and maybe help a fellow soul out, right? So, enjoy. I'll try to catch it up to speed fairly quickly, posting about two days at a time until we're up to speed. :) )