It’s that time of year.
Start planning for all those secret projects and New Year’s Resolutions. Before I get into my rant, let me tell some secret projects that happened in 2015. I kept a daily journal for the entire year.
I know the year is not over but I’m not worried about the last week. The journal has gone on so long, it’s a habit now. The last week will be no sweat. This month I went for a doctor’s appointment. I hadn’t been to the doctor in over six months. He told me that I had lost seven pounds since my last visit.
That’s got to be a total accident. The plan I had for losing weight in 2015 was a failure early in the year. I’ll take those things as being a success. I had plenty of failures of plans during the year.
Here we go for 2016
1. Lose Weight
B. Be more Consistent
7. Learn to count.
If you are like me, you probably have that lose weight resolution as your first thing for 2016. Go ahead and skip that one. There is no use in writing out some elaborate plan for your weight loss idea. Your only hope would be to write out an elaborate plan and have it published as a revolutionary diet book. Maybe you could make enough money to go to a specialized weight loss spa and lose that weight. Other wise you are stuck here with all the food from Christmas. Believe me, I know it is tough. This Christmas we got two turkeys, two hams, five pounds of barbecue, and some barbecue chickens. It will all spoil in a week. We are trying to eat as much as possible so we won’t be wasteful. Starting your diet in February would be a better idea that shooting for Jan. 1.
Waiting until February would also let you go out to dinner with the friends you didn’t get to see during Christmas. You couldn’t go to dinner with them because you had dinner with some other friends. In 2016, you would be better scheduling dinner from October until February. That would allow more weekends to get all these dinners in.
Since we are going to skip the weight loss fiasco that will allow more time for the real secret projects. I’ve got three secret projects that will require daily work. Some of these projects don’t really require daily work. If you don’t work on these projects often the project will fail rather quickly. None of these projects is earth shattering. They are just projects I want to do. They can be done but daily work will make it go a lot easier.
I’m not sure why we pack all these projects into a Jan. 1 starting date. Why don’t we just start them now? You know the saying; a year from now you will wish you had started today. Starting is the hard part. Actually, if the project is successful there will be an additional five years of work. That could make a truly successful project six years long. I should have started years ago.
It’s time to start writing down your secret projects and start doing something about them.
“She turned her can’t into can and her dreams into plans.”
You might as well put that lose weight back on your list. If I can lose seven pounds and not know how I did it, there is hop for all of us.
Happy New Year.
