Tag: Resolutions

Oh, that’s right

A milestone in 2022: 62 days in Glacier National Park. Previous record was 50 days – in 2021 (and in 2020).

Oh, that’s right, resolutions always never work.

But you’re reframing that.

Resolutions always work.

We must become comfortable knowing that resolve takes time.

We must also become comfortable that belief morphs into faith, faith morphs into action, action transforms into commitment, and commitment blossoms into purpose.

Didn’t reach 22 years of sobriety overnight.

The original act was simply to make December 31 the first day without a single drop of alcohol.

The next act was to repeat that accomplishment (an entire 24-hour period without a drop of alcohol) a second consecutive day.

Pro tip for 2023: Pick a calendar date that has an inspiring personal narrative. Hint: January 1 resolutions are bad karma.

Personal examples: Have used April Fools Day, Tax Day (April 15), Halloween, Thanksgiving, and New Years Eve. Personal narrative is amplified when you intentionally pick a memorable and meaningful milestone launch date.

  • April Fools Day – began blogging
  • April 15 (Tax day) – began running one-mailbox-a-day
  • Halloween – retired from Disney (scary)
  • Thanksgiving – announced my first book was published
  • New Years Eve – quit drinking on world’s biggest drinking day

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Resolutions always work

16-second video: An Eastern window (looking West) into Glacier National Park at St Mary. Resolve to thrive vs survive?

You cannot grow if you are burnt out.

Make your mental health – mental vibrancy – a daily priority.

If not now, when?

If not ever, why?

Oh, that’s right, resolutions always never work.

Pro tip for 2023: Pick a calendar date that has an inspiring personal narrative. Hint: January 1st resolutions are bad karma.

Personal examples: Have used April Fools Day, Tax Day (April 15), Halloween, Thanksgiving, and New Years Eve. Personal narrative is amplified when you intentionally pick a memorable and meaningful milestone launch date.

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Happy New Years Day 2018

 

Alternative link to short Usain Bolt video here.

Happy New Years Day 2018.

Do you have a word for 2018?

Tentatively (because this is being written December 1, 2017) my word for 2018 is….

Go.

 

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November 30th meet December 30

First principles thinking
First principle, without any help from Elon Musk – Think For Yourself.

 

 

November 30th meet December 30?

i love writing in such a way that there is no pressure on me to write to please others.

i used to worry about writing ahead – not posting live, but posting in the future. Kinda the way many television shows are recorded and then aired later.

Stumbled upon it on a 14-hour flight for a Disney Institute engagement because i was worried i wouldn’t have time the next morning to write.

Had just learned how to schedule a post to publish on a future date. In preparation for this trip, i wrote a post while still in Orlando for the morning i was worried about.

As luck would have it, my fear never happened and i wrote that morning, 14-hours from Orlando.

This meant i now had a surplus of five posts (one day’s worth).

Bottomline: i’m currently writing 30 days out  – in this case,  30 days before New Year’s Eve.

So i’m thinking about the ineffectiveness of resolutions.

i’m also thinking about how December 30, 2001 was the last day i drank alcohol.

Turns out, for determined people, you figure out how to conquer your fears and follow your dreams – no matter what day you decide to commit.

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What if the exact opposite always happened?

Apple Safari favorites page
Top line…a window to get “help”?

 

Today is January 28…

Four weeks into 2016 and we should be off to an exciting start to our new beginning.

Right?

Yet the echo haunts us…

“But I don’t do New Year’s Resolution. They never work. I’m tired of failing.”

Self-fulfilling prophecy?

What if it wasn’t?

What if the exact opposite always happened?

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

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