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Resolutions... I'll make em, then I'll break em... its a typical process that starts at the beginning of the year. Set out guidelines for what you want to do... get into the process of ratifying your resolution... and then, breaking it in a blase fashion and reverting to your usual self, waiting for the next new year to start the cycle again. Perhaps its just me, perhaps its not. It seems rather cliched actually, the idea that people make resolutions and then succeed in breaking them within at least the first month of the new year.
The mental resources that it takes to think up new resolutions for the new year are varying. Some may agonise of it for days trying to think what they could do better/how they could be better etc. Others, on the spur of the moment, say "yeah i'll
From my own experience, i know i am generally one of those resolution breakers. In recent years, the one's i've broken again and again are "i'll study harder and get better marks" and "im going to get fit", as i have neither gotten better marks nor gotten fitter.
Still it is good to set boundaries, and guidelines. so i will continue to set a resolution and try to keep it. Will probably fail miserably but try none the less i shall. Although i rather think to call them goals. They seem more concrete and more present in the psyche than a resolution. Resolutions are merely white lines that keep you within the safe bounds of the road. A goal however is more like a destination on said road... there are many different roads to that one destination, however the destination is always the same and unchanging.
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Goals for this year.
none of this vague nonsense. we will try to be as conspicuous and concrete as possible.
1. distinctions in each course i do
2. 40% increase in fitness (strength, musculature, 10% decrease in body fat?)
3. spend the recommended time studying, balanced with time socialising and acting on ones responsibilities.
4. amass savings to the tune of $5000.
well that is all my ramblings for today... it is currently 1 am in the morning and my faculties in coherent thought leave me, and as such i shall leave you with a quote from a book i recently bought called "god explained in a taxi ride" on death and ideas on the afterlife. i shall find the owner of said quote when it isn't such an ungodly hour
"You die, and you fertilise the plants, the plants get eaten by a snail and the snail gets eaten by a frenchman. Voila! you are now a frenchman"
Thanks for reading and have a Happy New Year
-Charles
2 comments:
mucho impressed by the exactness (i wanted to say exactitude, fantastic word, but completely wrong for this sentence) of your resolutions. i deliberately avoid even thinking of making any so that any success i achieve in the year is a bonus. aim low and you can only be pleasantly surprised!
ps. got it! using that word there would have been an inexactitude.
while i know setting resolutions is setting yourself up to fail. these goals are more like, "you're going to do this, or face the severe consequences". I've been too nice with myself.
And yes i agree, when you aim low, and exceed expectations, you feel great. but that's not really a way to live in academia...
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