Tag: Resolutions

It’s starting (again) and it’s so predictable (again)

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Leaving Washington State in 1984, we moved to Orlando to carve out a life at Disney.

 

It’s starting (again) and it’s so predictable (again).

What can we do differently this year, assuming the odds are we have never been able to make the change we’ve set out to accomplish?

Nothing.

Pathetic isn’t it?

Years, decades even, of pathetic self-talk.

That’s when i received the gift.

And you can too.

The gift of feeling like a hypocrite – and i mean deeply, painfully feeling it. So painful i couldn’t stand it anymore. Only to fail again. Until one year…

The only antidote is to get so emotionally pissed off that you rise above your past and slay your demonic, self-defeating internal dialogue.

 

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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. This website is about our mental attitude.

To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

Welcome to 2016, STOP

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Last night at the library, a book cover.

 

Sometimes, the things we do blow our minds. What was once something so ridiculously impossible, it never crossed our minds, is now something that is simply a daily habit.

It might also become something worth sharing.

And it might be something that some will take the wrong way.

Here’s the share.

Funny how blogging under your own terms means you can discover things few, if any, have discovered. So it’s quite exciting to be a pioneer an explorer. For instance, my blogging style has evolved since 2009 and while it happened ever so gradually, i’m now writing 100 days ahead.

No one on the Internet writes five daily, differently-themed blogs. And few have written a single blog for as many consecutive days (2,400+).

This means that what i’m writing right now (September 23, the 2015 Autumnal Equinox), is due to post on New Year’s Day 2016.

How cool is that?

The moral of the story?

  • It’s okay to make your own rules.
  • Be true to yourself (which means you need to go through serious growing pains first – there is no short cut).
  • Get started asap.

A year from now, you’ll wish you had begun today.

 

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This website is about our mental attitude. To leave this site to read today’s post on my physical health website, click here.

Happy New Year’s Eve

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Apple Watch OS2 update, September 21.

 

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.  – Tuli Kupferberg

On New Year’s Eve, 2001, i committed (again) to eliminating alcohol from my daily pattern.

Two previous “serious” attempts failed: When Cheryl got pregnant, and when our son was born. Both of those milestones seemed like legitimate starting points for a new life.

But the promise was eventually broken.

Something dramatic was needed. And rather than make the worn out “i’ll start my new change on New Year’s Day, i began my resolution on the biggest drinking day of the entire year.

Impossible is only so until it’s not.

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