The new year's a-comin'...and I've got to think of resolutions! Actually, I've given up on resolutions. You might even say that I've resolved to have nothing to do with resolutions; they're really just a cultural joke--no one expects you to keep a New Year's resolution. They're nice ideas...goals...things we should focus upon, but often we just regress back to the mean (our mean).
Although it seems like a non sequitur, here are a couple good questions, posed by R.K. Cooper:
- what's the most exceptional thing you've done this week?
- what's the most exceptional thing you will do next week?
I really like these clarifying questions. They focus me, help me cut away the crap, the dross (now THERE'S a great word! Underused, too). What I don't like is that it's hard to spend each moment, each day, each week in focused concentration. My battery just wears down. Doing the hard thing is...well...HARD! Pundits who exhort me to "deliver my best" seem to forget that some days my best just isn't there. On those days, I...
JUST GET UP OFF THE FLOOR. That's it.
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