Here’s a radical idea: DON’T MAKE ANY NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS!
No! Instead, make a list of ACCOMPLISHMENTS you wish to see yourself attain in 2019. What do YOU want to accomplish in 2019? Declare it…and then DO it!
Let’s start close to home, with readers and writers. Are you a reader? How many books did you read this year? Did you determine you will read five more, 10 more, 20 more in 2019? Whatever your target number, choose a number that’s feasible…and then live up to it.
Are you a writer? What are YOU going to accomplish? Finally sitting down and writing that novel that’s been brewing in your head? Finally starting your memoirs…to be continued as time goes on? Trying your hand at a different genre just to expand and grow? If you’ve written only short-form (articles, blogposts, and such) up till now, will you determine to accomplish writing your first whole BOOK this year? If you’ve written only nonfiction, do you want to try your hand at writing a novel in 2019?
Now on to other folks…what do you want to make it your intention to accomplish this year? Start a new business? Change jobs for one that pays better or that you enjoy more…even if it pays less? Go back to school to get the degree or training you need to get the job you really want? Move to another city? Find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with? Or divorce the spouse who makes your life miserable or simply doesn’t bring you the happiness you want and deserve?
Have I hit on one or more things you would like to accomplish in 2019? If not, it’s because I don’t know you personally and don’t know your circumstances. Do you want to accomplish reconnecting with your favorite aunt, with whom you’d lost touch? Do you want to accomplish crocheting 100 afghans for 100 of those children stuck at the US border? Do you have a really audacious desire to run for public office? Determine that in 2019 you will set up the foundation for your campaign—an office, a campaign manager, a speech writer—to be ready to campaign in earnest in 2020. Or perhaps your municipality will even hold local elections in 2019, and THIS is the year you will run for election! Better get organized quickly!
Whatever you want to accomplish in 2019, decide what it is, determine that you WILL accomplish it, and then DO IT! Let 2019 be YOUR year!