Last Chance To Make New Habits This Year

Three days from now we will be counting down to the beginning of a new decade. We will be exactly one year away from 2012, the year that some ancient people ( supposedly ) and tons of modern morons think will bear the end of the world.

I need a good excuse to change some habits, and starting in 2011, I'm going to go all in with the oft ignored tradition of setting resolutions for each new year. Maybe I stopped doing this when I was still shaving my bald upper lip in hopes my beard would grow in faster because, like this silly idea, setting resolutions just didn't work.

This time, I'm getting a running start. I'm old now. 30. So it's time to start giving a real chance to anything that might help me get the ballast down and the sails up on this boat. That means for the next four days I'm going to stay absolutely as busy as possible. Also, I'm considering a fast, for clarity & to remind myself how real the need is to work toward positive change.  ( There's nothing like not eating for awhile to make you take things seriously. )
I'm going to catch up on everything I can, planning my resolutions as I go, so that when the new year rolls in, I'll meet it with a dresser full of clean clothes, an empty sink, a balanced checkbook, and hopefully a little more hope.

I'm going to blog about my resolutions, and about my efforts to transform myself into a more studious, disciplined, energetic, and funnier guy. ( These are all the favorite traits I remember having in better periods of my life, so I know how. )

Life Still Passing; I'm Still Drifting

Still i wonder if there will be a tomorrow.
Despite yesterday and today,
i shake to think of all that we borrow;
the lust and the love and shame and the way
we all depend on tomorrow.