If telling a trusted person your goals can create a useful accountability, perhaps sharing mine with everyone will be even more powerful. Or maybe one of my 2023 resolutions will be useful to someone else – either as a possible goal or something to avoid at all costs.
I am going to write more this year. I am going to journal 15 minutes a day and start a new book. And I am going to write one personal note to someone each day, even if only to say hello.
Text less and call more. Avoid social media. Go to more UT softball games.
Read a well-reviewed book by a political author I despise and am convinced is wrong about everything. Watch fewer political opinion television shows.
Stop making fun of the mental acuity of Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden. Well, maybe I’ll just do it less often. But I will continue making fun of people who waste their time and money on get-rich-quick schemes.
Eat more seafood. Try yoga again. Keep my BMI below my high school ACT score. Remove all the candy from my house. Do 10 bench press repetitions with my body weight. (What I weighed in 8th grade, not now.)
Clean out the “auto subscriptions” on my Apple account and credit card. Clean the unused icons from my computer desktop. Clean my actual desktop. Clean my entire office. Organize my office quarterly, rather than only in leap years. Vacuum my car monthly.
Visit my two kids more, even though they each live more than 700 miles from me – in opposite directions. More quickly admit my mistakes. Get my…
