No Resolution January 24, 2023 Like many people, I've been known to perpetuate a New Year's resolution or two. "I'm going to exercise more. I'm going to eat healthier. I'm going to write a novel this year." And like many people, the resolution would rarely stick. I'll get a month, six weeks, maybe two months into the year and life would get in the way. Something would come up and I'd make a "just this once" exception. And then something else would come up. And a week or two or a month would go by and the resolution would be abandoned, then forgotten. (Better for the ego if our failures are forgotten....) So this year, I made no New Year's resolutions. Instead, I decided to make an attitude adjustment. I've been meaning to make better use of those bits and pieces of interstitial time we all have during the day: the fifteen minutes between getting home and sitting down to dinner, the half hour between the last meeting of the morning and lunchtime; that sort of thing. So I decided that instead of saying "I've only got five/fifteen/thirty minutes, that's not enough time to..." I'm going to start telling myself, "You've got five/fifteen/thirty minutes, let's see how much I can get done." We'll have to see if I can keep this attitude adjustment up, but so far I'm hopeful. I've gotten lots of little five-minute jobs done around the house and even made progress here and there on some of my longer-term goals. (c) 2023 Andrew Gudgel email: contact [at] andrewgudgel [dot] com