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December 13, 2008
A Change Would Do You Good...
So sung by my good friend Sheryl Crow.
Okay, so she's not my good friend, and, in fact, she's not even my friend at all. But I am not ashamed to say that I have a couple of her CD's, so actually, I paid her to be my friend. Or at least I paid her to sing to me. She got the better deal, I think.
I am not one for New Year's resolutions, because I have made them in the past, and yet I am still lazy, slovenly, late, overweight, a huge procrastinator (I'll tell you about that later) and overall, a the poster boy for any one who has ever made a resolution to change something about themselves, 'cause I never did it.
Until now. (Maybe.)
And this is why I want to tell you about my New Year's resolution. I figure that if I talk about it now, some two and a half weeks before we welcome 2009, it might spur me to action before we change years, as opposed to making the resolution after the new year. Also, since I am putting it in writing (so to speak) there is a record of when I said what I am going to do, and therefore, I can track back to what I said, when I said it, and see if there is any marked improvement.
This may come as a surprise to some of you (and it may come as no shock at all to most of you) that I am a born pessimist. I just tend to hang out on the negative side of life. Not all the time, but most of the time. I do see positive things, and often talk positively, but generally, I am a human Eeyore. (You parents out there will understand.)
Therefore, I resolve that in 2009, I am going to try very hard to be a more positive person. A person with a better outlook on life, a person not so wrapped up in small details, a person who can roll with changes and just move on.
But be warned.
I have a two and half weeks to be as negative as I can be. Why? Why not get a jump on the New Year and start to be more positive? No way. This is a huge change for me, and I want to relish in the negativity I have come to know so well, as I make room for positive thoughts, feelings, words and actions.
This fresh start is not going to be easy for me. (See what I mean?)
Speaking of fresh starts, there will also be a fresh start for this blog. I do not think I have what it takes to do this each and every day anymore, but I plan on using this blog as a daily journal to record the progress on my other goal, which is getting in shape to walk the Race For The Cure in my turn out gear. Notice I did not say resolution. This is a goal, which I will reach. This blog, I hope, will help me do that, as I log what I have done, what I have eaten, where I am going, and where I have been. I will have more on the blog's future, in the future.
But for now, positive things are happening, and I look forward to kicking the negative habit.
Wish me luck. I don't think they make a patch for that.
See you tomorrow...
Posted by Jon at December 13, 2008 08:48 PM