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Now be it resolved…or maybe not. Why resolutions don’t work for me and what I do instead.
I don’t mind January coming to an end but I also enjoy getting a load of thoughts on a paper about how I want to grow as a person as one year transitions into another.
I long ago gave up on New Years Resolutions as a way to motivate my own growth towards being the best version of myself. I think it’s something about the definition of resolve: “decide firmly on a course of action” that doesn’t ring true to me. You see, I’m not a firm decider of many things. I LOVE and ADORE optionality. I like exploration, curiosity, and experimentation. So, deciding firmly on a course of action is rarely my cup of tea.
My recent goal to rearrange my home office a perfect case in point. The specific goal I wrote on my “100 list” for the year and which I assigned to get traction in the first quarter of the year was “Decide on new office setup”. I planned. I took detailed measurements of the room. I made scale drawings of the space and made scale models out of pieces of index card of the furniture pieces that would be staying as well as the potential furniture pieces I was pre-shopping/shopping for online.
I prototyped a couple of different arrangements of the room using existing office furniture and a few pieces borrowed temporarily from other places in the…
