Every year at this time I try to come up with something profound to say here on my little blog. The end of an old year and the start of a new seems like an appropriate time to be profound, although I'm not sure why. I don't know about you, but nothing major will change in my life when I hang up a new calendar.
A couple of years ago, I told you about books I kept in the bathroom which had a reading for each day of the year. I really enjoyed those books, but I haven't had one appear to me in the past couple of years. Perhaps one will soon. Or maybe it's time to resurrect one from the past. Unfortunately, I gave away the one that keeps coming to mind. Ah, well.
I've written more than once (here and here) about resolutions and why I don't make them. That's still true. Upon reviewing those posts, I saw that instead of resolutions, I set goals, even going so far as to recommend SMART objectives in 2011. Clearly, if I'm going to set goals or objectives, I need to write them down someplace prominent where I can be reminded of them regularly. Each of those years I totally forgot about the goals I set. Instead, I'm entering this year vaguely and randomly. I have a few things in mind for the year, but they're in flux at the moment and a couple are mutually exclusive, so we'll see what happens. I'm okay with that, for now.
I guess the upshot of these maunderings is that I have no profound thoughts for you on this first day of 2014. Instead, I just want to wish you a happy New Year. I hope all that you dream of for the next 12 months comes true.
