2024-12-08
47 分钟In front of me today, I have a document, a document that contains two lists, to be more specific, two lists of New Year's resolutions, one from 2023 and one from 2024.
I have my last two years of new Year's resolutions in front of me today, and I'm going to react to them with you.
Did I accomplish my New Year's resolutions?
Did I fail miserably?
Did I fall somewhere in between?
What can we learn from the past two years of my New Year's resolutions now?
In hindsight, what can we learn about the concept of New Year's resolutions?
What can we learn about myself?
What can we learn about the world today?
We're going to be looking at my New Year's resolutions for the past two years, reacting to them, and seeing what we discover along the way.
Okay.
Because I can almost guarantee we will discover at least something sort of interesting.
Before we begin, I should clarify my stance on New Year's resolutions, because the conversation around New Year's resolutions every year tends to be a bit polarizing.
A lot of people think New Year's resolutions are pointless.
Making a bunch of goals at once is overwhelming for the average person and nothing ends up coming of it except for disappointment.
Other people believe that it's incredibly helpful and that we need a reset every once in a while.
And the New Year is a great time for that.
It's a day on the calendar that holds a lot of weight because it is the sign of a new year, even for the hardest working person who is the most wrapped up in the daily minutia of their life.
And work has to stop on New Year's and say, okay, we're opening a new page of our book.
This is a new chapter.