This is February, time to look at New Year’s Resolutions. During the Christmas holidays I was deep in nostalgia about past occasions. The new year makes me think of new beginnings.
I don’t usually make New Year’s Resolutions. Not that I don’t have any bad habits or couldn’t use some more good ones, I just doubt whether I’ll do much changing.
I am breaking one bad habit. I got a head start right after Christmas. I won’t disclose my secret vice but I am leaving it behind in the old year. Sometimes I lapse but I’m doing pretty good.
Most of my goals are to keep doing what I’m doing. I’m still enjoying writing my blog. It’s about the amount of writing I want to do. I don’t have the energy to chase down magazine stories and submit proposals as a freelancer nor write another book. To pen my memoir, “A View from a Midwest Ferris Wheel,” I had to learn to write creative nonfiction. It took me ten tears to have it ready to submit to a publisher.
One thing I’m trying to do is walk through the house in the evening during each commercial while I’m watching TV. I sit too much.
One of my writer friends covered the suggested 10,00o steps daily inside her house. She had a pedometer to record her movements. I don’t expect to cover that much ground but I think moving during each commercial is a reasonable goal. The ads used to occur every fifteen minutes but I think they are oftener now but I haven’t timed them. That was when one business sponsored a program such as Chevrolet and Dinah Shore. Now, multiple products are hawked during each break and they last about four minutes, I think.
Are you keeping up on your New Year’s Resolutions or didn’t you bother to make any?