It's A Brand New Day

If the new year is for resolutions, then tomorrow is New Year’s Day.

You see, I never make a resolution for the new year on New Year’s Eve.  It’s just not in my nature to put that kind of pressure on myself.  In fact, I don’t even make resolutions during the year.

But in the wee small hours of this morning, as I lay awake not able to sleep, I thought of three things that I really want to change.  So today is New Year’s Eve and I share my resolutions with you:

I want to be a better listener.  I have to give William Tincup’s article on Focustime credit for this.  It resonated with me because, as I have carved out a part of my life for online chatter, I have had to realize I could listen to that stuff all day.  But the person right in front of me, needs my individualized attention right now.  As time goes on, I’m getting the chance to meet some of you personally.  This is great.  But until you move from the ethereal to the physical, the person in front of me takes precedent.  

I want to share more. Here is where the online chatter has helped me. Despite the etherealness of this, and maybe because of it, the online world requires/demands more transparency.  If you’re blogging, twittering, facebooking, linkingin, etc. and you are not yourself, it seems less likely you will be accepted/followed/believed.  Over the course of the last few months, I recognize that I am not as protective of personal information as I may have been before.  I’m not dumb about this, for example, I’m not giving out my social security number.  Just more practical in realizing what I should be afraid of. 

I want to stop whining. The first two were easy.  The third one’s going to be more difficult.  I caught myself at least 3 times today, complaining about something meaningless.  I did have some choice words for the skateboarder who almost hit me as I was riding my bike into work today.  But that’s different.  I’m talking about the petty stuff. The stuff that 10 minutes from now means nothing. Frankly I’m not even interested in what I’m complaining about.  Strange that I expect others to be interested.  In lieu of Charlie Judy’s article, I must remember shutupforhaiti.

So, it may be 20 days late for you.  But for me, it’s a brand new day.  Happy New Year everyone!