Ok, so it’s New Year’s resolution time…you know the promises you make to yourself in a rush of champagne-inspired euphoria in the middle of the night that you then break when the hangover sets in and January just seems too damn long.
Since I don’t smoke and I already go work out at my gym regularly, those two resolutions are automatically moot. And aren’t those two the standard New Year’s resolutions for a large majority of the population? “Quit smoking”, “Get fit”?
Therefore, this year I have a twist on the theme: The anti-resolution. I have decided to make resolutions about things I will NOT do in 2011. A lot of thought went into these and if you think this is easy – to NOT do something as opposed to doing something – then you are dead wrong. It will take a lot of willpower to change certain behavior patterns that I have spent the past year (and more) practicing.
But those who know me also know that willpower is something I do have a fair bit of.
So here they are:
- I will not invest in relationships with other humans that are a waste of time, not good for me, and do not give me something back.
- I will not adhere to routine, custom, tradition, “how it’s always been” if there is a better way that’s outside of my comfort zone.
- I will not be engaged in the same mind-numbing work at the end of 2011 as at the beginning.
- I will not lie to anyone except my boss and my soon-to-be-ex-sister-in-law.
- I will not hate anyone more than my boss and my soon-to-be-ex-sister-in-law.
- I will not take the yummy-looking bait, when offered it.
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Happy New Year, folks. Hoping 2011 will smile upon you too.
Evelynn Starr 
The anti-resolution = brilliant. Kind of like your own personal commandments. You should post them above your desk (except the one about your boss…unless you want to fast track out of your mind-numbing job…)
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great idea, thanks! fast track sounds good to me! the commandments will be going up in the new office (a.k.a. “the dungeon”) my boss is making me move into next week.