“Beyond the Reef”
6″ x 6″ oil painting on freestanding gallery-wrapped canvas
artwork & content Copyright Jean Burman 2008
Most people take advantage of the opportunity that a brand new year presents to reflect on the past year and to come up with ways to do things better in the new year. Whatever it is they want to do… be it “to get more out of life”… or maybe even to “get a life” in the first place… to lose weight… or maybe to put some on… read more… paint more… write less… sell more… or to become an overnight success (however long that may take ~grin~)… whatever… resolutions require promises be made! To this end… the theory goes… we should use the information gleaned from the experiences of the past year to formulate a complicated and ambitious “resolve” to do better and get more done in the coming year.
FUZZY LOGIC – In case you were wondering… I don’t DO resolutions. I reckon resolutions set us up for failure… relying so heavily (as they do) on hindsight… which of course as we all know… we can’t have until it’s too late to do anything with it!
Everyone knows that no-one follows through with resolutions made at New Year and that most have fallen by the wayside by the third week in January. So why do we do it?
Wouldn’t it be far wiser to make a series of rolling action plans spread out evenly throughout the year? That way we can more easily mould and shape our ambitions around the inevitable and always unpredictable life events that crop up for each and every one of us throughout the year. Besides… plans don’t inflict nearly as much guilt and regret that we have (once again) failed to accomplish what we so ambitiously set out to do on that heady happy champagne-soaked occasion way back on January 1 (in whatever given year it was!)
And that way… when things happen… like when the family car becomes submerged beneath several feet of rising sea water in a flash flood on one of the last days of the year… we can just say… “Hah!… c’est la vie!” There’s always next year… and another rolling action plan! (((LOL)))
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