My own New Year's resolutions

[thatcrazycajun]

Since it would be the height of hypocrisy to expect others to make resolutions to improve themselves and not be willing to recognize where I have fallen short in the past year, here is a list of my own goals for the new year (a work in progress):

• Be more attentive to my Songbird as she toils half a world away.
• Finally get a CD of my own songs out (a hardy perennial).
• Be more proactive and less avoidant/procrastinatory about handling my financial obligations.
• Be more artistically creative and exercise those long-underused mental muscles.
• Be kinder to others and more patient with them when they fail to meet my expectations.
• Work harder on rebuilding my relationship with my genetic family (call/write more often!).
• Work harder on developing my professional career & network outside my day job.
• Think more carefully about what I write in this journal before posting it.
• Be more politically active to help bring about the changes I want to see in the country and the world.
• Respect other people's views, worth, needs and feelings more.

Stay tuned over the next 365 days for progress reports on all of the above, and please feel free to hold me accountable for any failures thereof.