I spend a lot of time in a corporate environment. We think of the year in terms of quarters. We just concluded Quarter 1 – that is, January, February, and March. Quarter end is when you summarize your activities of the first quarter for financial and operational reporting. I have a couple of memos to write and some analysis to do to wrap up Q1 for my job.
As I reflected on the first three months of 2018, I realized that I never made formal New Year’s resolutions for myself. Oh, I made the normal promises to myself: Lose Weight! Eat Better! Workout! I make those promises to myself all the time, so they didn’t really hold the gravitas that New Year’s Resolutions should. The beginning of this year was a stressful time, so I was focused on just trying to get through a day at a time, not on what I wanted to accomplish in 2018 as a whole. Remarkably, I did start eating better, losing weight and working out.
New Year’s Resolutions are overrated anyway. I can’t remember by the end of the year what my resolution was at the beginning of the year. Why not take it a quarter at a time? Ok, so I didn’t make any formal New Year’s Resolutions back in January. So what? A year is too big of a bite for me anyway. I can’t chew a whole year! I’ve decided to make Second Quarter’s Resolutions for April, May, and June instead. Here they are, in no particular order:
- Lose Weight! Eat Better! Workout!
- Publish at least one blog post per week
- Organize my scrapbook space so that I can scrapbook at home
- Establish a bill paying routine so that bills that are not set up on auto pay get paid on time for a change
- Weave at least two rugs on my Union Loom
- Finally start writing a novel by writing a minimum of 15 minutes a day, at least 5 days a week
- Get to work by 8:00 a.m. at least 3 days a week
Did I make too many resolutions? It looks like a lot, but if you look more closely, you will see that there are really only three: Health, Responsibility, and Creativity. I am optimistic that I can accomplish everything that I listed as my Second Quarter’s Resolutions, but that’s something I can assess at the end of June, before I decide on my Third Quarter’s Resolutions!