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The Resolve To Change Requires Some Big Reason, Doesn’t It?

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New Year’s Resolutions can happen at anytime. The no texting or emailing while driving has been in effect all year. The resolve to stop taking photos while driving (above) didn’t become official until March.

Resolve to change requires some big reason to. The youthful, impressionable eyes in the back seat where a blinding flash of the obvious. Curious, any secret “motivational” weapons out there?

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Is It Too Late Or Too Early To Think About New Year’s Resolutions?

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Those of us who’ve been on the planet for a fair time have a few thoughts about New Year’s Resolutions. Don’t we? We also have a few options. There were youthful times when they meant everything to us. And times where we didn’t even bother. Been there.

Have re-embraced them for a decade or so. Alternating between impossible and decently doable. This years’s resolve to stop texting and emailing while driving continues to be a change that may save a life, or two.

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Creating and Sharing, By Lorie Sheffer, Featured Guest Blogger @ Mid Life Celebration

Photo courtesy of Lorie Sheffer

If you love to cook, would it still give you pleasure if there was no one to eat the food you prepared? If you love to sing, would you still sing if no one ever listened? If you love to write, what if you were the only person who read your written word? Would an artist still paint even though his or her canvases could only hang in total darkness? What if there was a play that was performed every evening to a totally empty theater?

How much of what we love is done for the simple act of creating something, and how much of it is because we can share it with others? If we love doing something does it matter if anyone knows or cares or shares it with us? Or is the simple act enough for us to continue?