Life is a series of restarts. The most famous is of course the New Year. Each year we make resolutions to change this or that about ourselves. Set deadlines and goals for the year. I want to lose ten pounds by my birthday. I want to read a book a month. I want to whatever. This lasts maybe a month or two, three at most. Then we look up and we’ve gained a pound, and read one book. So we begin again. I don’t understand why we do this, but it is definitely part of human nature.
We expect continuous effort from ourselves, but we are not programmed that way. Life is cyclical. The sun rises and sets. Seasons pass in the same order each year. We are not separate from this. We would be better off if we accepted our nature and worked with it instead of against it. For myself I think that the shorter my restart cycles the better. That is the closest I can get to a continuous effort.
I am using the vacation we just finished as a restart point. I had time in the car to collect my thoughts. The first five months of 2009 unfolded pretty much like it always does for me. I got distracted by the immediate tasks at hand and missed my goal. Then I moved the goal to later in the year. I know how to break this trend, but it will take focus, effort and I have to remember that each morning is a chance to start again.
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