Hereby Resolving: The 2014 Manifesto

I LOVE making New Year's resolutions. I have oft documented how much I enjoy the idea of a fresh start. So many people I know never make a resolution because they know they never intend to keep it. In fact, I have had people actually get a little hostile toward me whenever I ask them if they are going to make a New Year's resolution. They often provide me with some snarky responses.

Forget that crap! I say GO FOR IT! Let's all just take a childlike leap of faith, throw caution to the wind, and just resolve the heck out of 2014!! I saw one of my Facebook friend's posts this morning. It was a cartoon that basically stated if you are going to fail, then fail BIG! 

Let's just pull out all the cliches and dust them off. Let's paint 2014 Town red, take no prisoners, let's party like it's 1999, and let's blow 2014's doors off! 

 I will believe I can do it! Will it last more than 24 hours? Um. Maybe, maybe not. But, until the resolution is broken, the POTENTIAL for achieving ALL our goals is there. We have a fresh start. Every day is another chance to climb up goal mountain. So, why are we so afraid to try? I refuse to be a coward!

So, with that in mind, I'm going to declare my 2014 Manifesto: 

1. I will finish my novel, The Gifted, by April 1st. 

2. I will lose weight and get into better shape.

3. I will become more organized and try to do something worthwhile EVERY day. 

4.  I will save money (somehow) this year. 

 5. I will enjoy more quiet times with family and friends. 

 I have more things I want to improve but I think that will do for now.  Benjamin Franklin once said, "They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

I resolve every year to lose weight. Am I skinny yet? Heck, NO! Did I lose some weight from last year? Actually, yes. Does it matter? Not a bit. Because it is the willingness to keep trying that means one day I will succeed in whatever I choose to do. 

Let me preach another Benjamin Franklin saying, "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." 

Happy New Year to the Tribe! I hope everyone does something worthwhile today that will set the tone for their fresh start -- their newborn year. 

Hugs, 
LA

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Yesterday, I wrote a word

Good Evening, Members of The Tribe,  I hope you are all living the lives of which you have always dreamed. I have been a busy little thing. I have been working on a first draft of my novel, The Gifted, and anticipate it will be completed by January 2015. Publication? Well .... (scuffs toe at the dirt) ... we'll see. I will have a LOT of polishing to do.  Since my last post oh-so-long-ago, I have moved into a new home, begun a new job with a new company, and have made some life-changing choices.  For the past few years, I was excited when I managed to create a word or two. I wrote lots of poetry because it was an easier form for me to enjoy -- creatively speaking -- than my fiction. Yeah, I know, I know ... poetry is a noble art form and all that. I won't argue. I love poetry. I love writing and reading it. Jeez! Calm down ... It's just that I have always wanted to be a fiction writer. A novelist.  For too long, I have not been living up to who I am. To
Read more

Watch out for wandering minds and hidden memory chips

Good morning, dear Tribe!  I hope everyone has had a good week. I have been doing okay as I have set off on the adventure that is my life -- working for paychecks that are already gone before they reach my bank account. So many bills, so little time .... ahh, but life doesn't have to be that way, does it? It's all about keeping one's sense of humor. I have to laugh. Life is ridiculous sometimes. It's wonderful and ridiculous and it is the little things that can bring us so much joy.  This past week, the thing that amused me most was how I knew I was aggravating people who had to repeat things to me. Someone was telling me something and I was looking right into her face and I would have to have her repeat half of what she said because my mind was on something else. If I am working on something else, or have other things on my mind, then it is hard for me to focus on any one thing. It can make for interesting situations. The "conversation" can go something
Read more

A Kid Named Larry

Hello, Dear Reader, and fellow Tribe members, I am here to say that I actually accomplished my goal for last week and that was to finish an outline that will help me complete my complication novella -- Pioneer . I did it!! I actually managed to finish the outline with special thanks to a brainstorming session with my dear friend, Shanan. (Insert happy dance here.) Goals for this week: 1. Two posts for the week 2. Write through sections one and two on Pioneer . Each goal brings me closer to what I want to accomplish and the little dialog here helps keep me going Dear Reader. I may be back on later to post some more thoughts on the subject of meeting goals, but until then I thought I post another one of my published short stories. The one I chose is called "A Kid Named Larry" and it was published in December, 2003 in EOTU Ezine (Editor Larry Dennis).  This story is a strange and humorous take on the weird kid at school. I hope you like it. Until the next time we me
Read more