The 9 year old wrote these resolutions for 2011. Apparently he fell behind on planting trees.

I pretty much always make at least a few New Year’s resolutions, and for the most part, like everyone else, they fade away. The only variation is the speed with which they disappear. So this year, I came up with a new idea that I’m hoping will help me make some changes.

Monthly resolutions!

I’m going to choose a few goals to try to stick to for just the month. Then, at the end of said month, I’ll reassess, decide whether I should continue with those goals and/or add new ones. I figure, it’s much easier to stick with a goal for one month, and then once I have, hopefully a glimmer of a habit will have been formed, and continuing will be easier. And, if at the end of the month I’ve had trouble, then I can revise the goals without feeling like a failure. If I said I’d walk 5 times a week and I only manage 3, then I can make the next month’s goal to walk 3 times a week, without feeling like a failure.

Now, we’re already well into January, but I’m still picking up a few goals for this month, which will give me an even shorter trial period to see how this works. But I’m optimistic.

So, here are my goals for January:

• blog at least 3 times a week
• log my meals at My Fitness Pal every day
• practice guitar 3 times a week

See, I got a new guitar for Christmas, and I need to start learning.

Do you have any New Year’s resolutions? I’ll keep you posted on how these go, and what my new goals are come February. Although you’ll be able to monitor my first goal pretty easily yourself!

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