Am I more stubborn than me? Let's find out.
January 2nd, 2010
'Resolutions'. Bah.
As much as I'm not big on 'holidays' and 'traditions' and the like, I figure now's as good a time as any to try and kick a few of my bad habits. Not that it being the second day of the second decade of the second millennium means anything different than trying to change oneself on any other day of the year, but why not? It's easier to keep track of on a calendar that way, right?
I know I'm nigh-perfect and all, but I'm going to try and be a little less procrastinate-y from here on. I'm 36 now (ugh), which means I suppose I should at least act a little bit more like a 'grown up'. Although if television is my model for such, that means I should be running around half-naked in sub-zero temperatures in a football stadium with face paint on and numbers shaved into my back hair.
That's not about to happen, mind you.
But I am going to try and have just a little bit more discipline. I tend to put things off until they hit critical mass one way or the other, and I'm trying to stop that. I did good yesterday, doing all the stuff I had to before I began to dink around with the stuff I wanted to. All the cleaning and so forth, I was pretty good in that aspect. I almost have all the weekend's chores done now.
I'm also going to try and engage in just a little bit of self improvement. The Sexy Other wants to try this diet that has worked in the past, and I'm going to go along for the ride. This 'cause my own attempts have failed me so far (though truth be told, I have yet to find the diet book that says 'quarter pounders with cheese' are okay meals). It's that 'Rosedale' thing, if I remember right.
And I probably do, what with my mind being all clear today.
So there's two of those. The third is I'm going to try a bit harder to be not quite a negative nelly all the time. You can see evidence of this by me a) trying to be more assertive in life, and b) probably not quite so biled up and ranty here. Well, if I need to vent I'll still be doing it here, but I'm going to try and at least look on the plus side of things a bit more than I have been.
A bit more. We'll see how long this lasts, but I figure if I at least attempt to stick with these three notions, things might go a bit better for me (and the people around me) over the next few months. Can't make any guarantees of course but I'm gonna try. I'm working against 36 years of mental inertia after all, and that's a big wall of stubbornness you know. But that's all right.
If I'm anything, it's stubborn.