Current mood:	excited
Current music:	some crap on the local radio

Damn I am jazzed today. I have gotten so many of those dark shadows off me and am getting things moving in my life. The 'dark shadows' are all those things that I said I would do someday and never really followed up on or got started with. I realized that most of these things really weren't all that big, expensive, or even time consuming. Part of the problem was simply a misunderstanding of the goal. So, now I have gotten moving with a lot of those small things and I feel that a huge weight has been lifted. No longer am I lingering under that dreadful shadow. Ahhh...

Resolutions:
I have never quite understood why so many people hate them. I make resolutions to myself all the time. They are simply goals. Things that I wish to do or accomplish. Do I make more of them at New Years? Sure, but this is because I have ususally just spent several days in the last two weeks reviewing what I 'did' get done this year, preparing my business year end paperwork, and making new performance goals for the upcoming year. Could this be done some other time? Sure, but since I am using the regular calendar year as my business and fiscal calendar year, it just seems to make a lot of sense to work on it then. That, plus the fact that I have more days off at this time of year due to holidays than at any other time and these holidays allow me ample time to review such goals. Resolutions, like most things, are only of value if you make them for the right reasons and follow up on them regularly.

So, to all of you out there who made resolutions, regardless of when you made them, good for you.

As for me, I am looking forward to getting a lot done in this next year. Who cares that the time frames are arbitrary or made up by some freaky religious zealots in history. Time is as it is, just don't waste it unless you mean to.

Sharkey