Your 2023 Resolutions

We’re almost at that time of year
when we talk with our buddies
about our
2023 resolutions
and we craft some new resolutions
for 2024.

If you’ve reviewed
your 2023 resolutions
and you discovered
you hadn’t completed or kept
any of them,
there’s good news!

There’s still time
to complete them.

2023 isn’t over.
Not yet.
We have over 20 days
left in the year.

That’s definitely
enough time to tackle
or start to tackle
one of your resolutions
for the year.

Make the most of 2023.
Complete a resolution
or goal.

Keep A Done List

It is easy
to become distracted,
to be swept into mini ’emergencies’
and not complete the more important tasks.

To-do lists keep me on track.

But done lists
are almost as important
to my success.

These are lists
of all the big tasks
I’ve completed
over a year or a month or a week.

Adding tasks to the done list
keeps me motivated.
It pushes me to accomplish more.

And reviewing done lists
gives me a sense of accomplishment.

When I wonder
if my sacrifices are worth it,
if I’m progressing,
I look at a done list
and I remember all I’ve accomplished.

Consider keeping
a done list.

Time Sensitive Tasks First

A close contact had COVID.

I knew I would soon catch it
(for the second time – sigh)
so I organized my list of
must-complete tasks
by due date
and completed them
as quickly as possible.

I was fortunate
because I knew about
the close contact catching COVID.

But we should be now
organizing our tasks
this way ALL the time.

Because this is
the f*cked up world
we’re currently living in.

Any of us
could catch COVID
tomorrow
and be horribly ill
for two weeks,
four weeks.
forever.

Organize your essential tasks
by due date
and then
get ‘er done!