Choose your own resolution

It’s that time of year again: when you set up a new calendar for a new year and once again come to terms with the inexorable march of time, which will continue onward until your death and then, somehow, beyond your departure from this mortal coil, although it will be less of a concern to you at that point.

Anyway, one thing that many people like to do at the beginning of a new year is to set a “resolution” for themselves, which is really just a goal for the year. Yes, I’m introducing the concept of a New Year’s Resolution as if it’s not common knowledge. Deal with it.

My kid had a tough time last week trying to come to terms with the end of Christmas and the start of a new year and it’s like, join the club, kid. No one wants time to advance less than me, but there’s nothing to be done about it. Unless that Ted Williams/Walt Disney frozen head thing pans out, I guess. But until we know more about cryogenics, let’s just focus on the here and now.

And the here and now is new year’s resolutions. Maybe you’ve made one already. Maybe you’re already hard at work on yours. Maybe you’re mulling over a few. Maybe you know what it’s going to be but you’re waiting to eat through the simply absurd amount of Christmas candies and desserts left over in your house before you can really kick it off.

But maybe you still need help landing on a resolution. And if that’s the case, boy have you come to the right place! I’m offering a handy list of buckets of types of resolution that might be good to dip into — nothing too specific, but plenty of leeway here that I think anyone could adapt one of these categories to suit their own needs.

Join me, won’t you, on an exploration of resolutions and how you can make them work for you.

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