New Year Actions

It’s Jan 2, 2011 and starting to think about the New Year and what it adventures it holds in store for me. I usually start the last day of the year thinking about my goals for the upcoming year and what was accomplished last year.  

I don’t usually set resolutions down as that implies that I have to change or create a will to do something that I don’t do or don’t like to do.  If I had begun the year with the usual resolutions eating healthy would have been blown as we opted for fast food rather than cooking last night.  A goal on the other hand, starts with a plan, then setting down the foundation, and then an action. 

It comes down to word play; goal vs. resolution but even the definition of goal is more appealing to the senses than that of resolution:

            Goal:   the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.

            Resolution:

o   a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.

o   the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.

o   the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute; firmness of purpose

That being said, a friend forwarded to me a blog by Christine Kane implying the same about how uninspiring the routine resolutions can be and offers an alternative by using single words to create actions/goals/resolutions. I found a lot of words that I wanted to go for the year with but narrowed it down to two, let’s see how that goes, I have 363 days to test it out!