Anti-Resolutions

For 2009, I’ve decided not to make resolutions. Last year, for the first time in a long while, I didn’t make any resolutions. I thought for sure this would lead to my untimely demise, or at least to the stagnation of all my goals and projects. It actually had the opposite effect.

I lost nearly 15 pounds.

I finished a book and am shopping it around.

I went back to school to learn web design.

I got a new job.

And all of this with not a single new year’s resolution for 2008. Now that’s not to say that none of those things happened without resolutions. I resolved to stop eating so darn much. (Although, I admit, getting braces helped with that whole not eating so much thing.) I resolved to finish my book. I resolved to go back to school and learn a technology field. I didn’t exactly resolve to find a new job, but I let the opportunity come to me, and I took it when it was right.

In addition to all that stuff, I got my home filing system in order, completely reorganized my DVD collection into space-saving boxes, completed a personal Keep In Touch program, and did a whole lot of other neat projects that were important to me at the time, and not just because they were hanging over my head from January 1. It was pretty freeing and great.

So this year, I’m not making any resolutions either, except to do the things that make me most happy, and always let opportunities find me. Very zen of me, don’t you think. Yeah, I’m pretty impressed with myself too.

(Watch, in like two months, I’ll make a whole list of resolutions out of guilt for not making any on January 1. But we’ll just pretend I’m zen for now, ok?)

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