Happy New Year!

Yep, it is officially 2010! Time to get used to writing a different year, recover from the holidays, and break out the resolutions.

Personally, I am terrible with resolutions. My willpower is something akin to that of a fox just outside an open chicken coop door, so I'm not so big on resolutions. Maybe I've just never done them right - possibly because I always seem to go for the abstract.

Let's take the old standby of weight loss as an example. Resolving to get in shape? Admirable but abstract, no concrete goal. Resolving to exercise three times a week? Concrete goal, something I can really sink my teeth into and chart my progress. I can take that and say, "Okay, I can work up to exercising thirty minutes three times a week, and once I'm there, work it up to sixty minutes! Weight loss, universe willing, will follow!"

This year, I'm going to set myself a few concrete goals, things I can work on that aren't setting myself up for failure. Therefore, this year I am going to:

• Finish that short story that's been sitting around on my hard drive for the past year, polish it up, and send it out.
• Finish a novel and get it to the point where I let other people read it. All goes well there, send IT out!
• Finish that pic of Heph's workroom that I've been playing around with since May.
• Keep up with this blog for the next 12 months.
• And yes, start exercising three times a week.

There. They're out there, they're concrete, and I think they're doable. Wish me luck!

Final thoughts on this first of January, 2010: hope the coming year brings luck, health, and good memories for all! Happy New Year!