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Resolve to Make Modest Changes
Posted by Gina Trapani at 3:30 AM on January 3, 2008
Productivity blogger Merlin Mann recaps his January "Fresh Starts and Modest Changes" podcasts and posts in an attempt to make New Year's resolution season less unrealistic and more doable.
The point, as ever, is that change is not to be found in the play-acting and sense of personal revolution that the resolution -- good-natured as its intention may be -- demands of us. The real cipher is to just get into the habit of noticing the small things that might bring about outsized improvements in our lives.We linked several of Merlin's posts on the topic last year when they originally ran, but they're worth another read if you're already rubbing your bottom after falling off the resolution wagon. What small changes are you making in your life in '08? Let us know in the comments.
Tags: goals | habits | new year's | new year's resolutions | new years | new years resolutions
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Eddie C.
Posted 12:54 PM 2/1/08
See, I take the opposite tack. Examples of resolutions I've made this year and in the past:
*To start an American football league for people with no arms.
*To create a market for Mexican-Asian-Irish fusion cuisine.
*To finally be able to surf the Internet using only the power of my mind.
*To discover a cure for MySpace.
Eddie C.
firefangle
Posted 2:50 PM 2/1/08
My over-arching, quasi-thematic resolution is to take more risks. My more granular resolutions are to write and do yoga every single day of the year. This may sound grandiose, but the key for me with the granular resolutions are to make them utterly doable. A single stretch can count as yoga, a post in the comments on Lifehacker is writing. As for the risk taking, I use my blog every Tuesday to revisit the bigger resolutions. It worked last year - that was the first year I could actually remember my resolution in December...
firefangle
Erudecorp
Posted 11:48 AM 3/1/08
Actually the mind is better at making big, sweeping changes and shifting its whole point of view than incrementally changing. A big change seems like a breath of fresh air. It's the little changes that bug people. Look up prefrontal cortex.
Erudecorp