Unlike Deepak Chopra who a) doesn’t believe in New Year’s resolutions because we’re all a bunch of losers, yet ha b) makes them every 4 months, I love them….so go, write them down. Review them, start the new year out fresh.
from an interview in the Sunday LATimes, (these 2 question/answers are out of order, but make more sense this way)
What do you think of New Year’s resolutions?
I think no one ever keeps them, so a while ago I started saying, my New Year’s resolution is no resolution. Because everybody joins the gym and they stop going after three weeks; everybody goes on a diet, but they never keep the diets. So I don’t think much of New Year’s resolutions.
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Do you participate in the annual ritual of taking stock at the new year?
I take stock every three or four months. Every four months or so, I take a week off to be in total silence, to look back and see what I should be looking at in the future. For me, it would be a quarterly ritual.
Happy New Year, Terri.
Perhaps it underscores my egocentrism, but I do resolutions on my birthday and tend to keep them private. Planning yearly goals is important, but the party-game, December 30, I’m-gonna-lose-20-pounds exercise seems cheap.
That’s a good plan too.
I like the party game though. It’s cheap, it’s fun, it gives some direction and there’s usually nothing better to do around new years!