I don’t do the New Year’s Resolutions thing. I think I blog that every year.
I’m more a monthly challenge type of person or I pick up goals as I go. The first of the year just doesn’t do anything for me. I decided last year I wanted to do a 1/2 marathon so I trained and did it. Then I decided I wanted to do it again so I did it twice more, trying to improve my technique and time.
I tried the vegan thing for 30 days mid-May to mid-June and it was very interesting. I then decided to stick mostly with it. In fact, I was very lax about it in December and didn’t feel well for it. Back on it now and I’m feeling much better.
Late last year I just decided to start training for a marathon, so I am.
I just don’t do real resolutions, although I have finished several year-long photography challenges over the last 3 years, but those only started on the first of the year because I received the camera (and subsequently my fancy schmancy phones) at Christmas/Birthday, so it took until the 1st to figure out what I wanted to do.
Anyhow, this leads me to again, I don’t do resolutions, I just change things or try new things when I decide it needs changing or I want something new and different. There is no real rhyme or reason to its beginning point.
Some girlfriends of mine did come up with this great idea to be accountable to eachother daily though in our attire. It’s a great idea, because with us coming up on middle age, all having kids, careers (whether it be in or out of the home), family life, house stuff, etc., sometimes we let ourselves get lost in the shuffle. We make sure everyone else is presentable as they leave the house, but what about us? Sure, jeans and my corporate-logo golf shirt with jeans and messy hair is fine when I’m going to trapsing through the mud all day in steal-toed boots and a hard hat, but what about those other times when I’m not? The 95% of my job where I’m at the office or meeting a client?
So far, it’s working for me. I was tempted to dress down several days, but upped it a bit, knowing I was going to have to post a picture or at least confess to my ensemble. I hope that it only takes me the one month to make this normal procedure so i don’t have to photograph daily.
(I’m trying to get used to this new iPhone too, and how its camera works, etc., so it’s a bit rough right now)
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