You know how there's those people who are like, "I love Christmas!" or "Halloween is my favorite holiday!" Well, I'm the one that ADORES New Year's. Lists! Parties! Optimistic statements and wishes for future happiness! This is what makes me tick.
In the past, I've done the whole inventory-of-past-disappointments with a detailed plan-for-future-success baloney. I've made lists of resolutions. I've narrowed the resolutions down to only 3 (or maybe 5). I've stopped calling them resolutions, so people stop laughing at my idealistic intentions. And really, I think I've succeeded most of the time, in that I still believe in trying to make it better.
So this year, I'm trying microhabits, not resolutions. Easy to keep. Almost stupidly so, in fact. But hopefully, these tiny steps will make big things happen. Vague enough to be applicable in a lot of situations, but specific enough to move the ball forward. The framework is "enough". These are the little triangles in the corner of said frame:
1. Say hi to the "boss" every day (the boss being whoever runs the particular endeavor I'm trying to participate with).
2. Say hi to the "family" every day (the family being my friends, colleagues, co-pilots, passersby, etc.)
3. Find one truth every day (the truth being beauty, or quiet, or something I need to say).
4. Pick up one piece of trash every day (trash being anything from actual trash to a mess that I've made in a relationship or whatever).
And this is part of the picture with which I hope to fill the frame:
26 books read
52 blog posts!!!
104 dances
206 hugs
345 pleasant dreams
365 trash bags (hopefully not literally....)
730 hellos
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