Most years I hear stories about New Years resolutions and think that they are dumb. Why wait till the new year to make changes in your life? Anyway, this year I decided to jump on the age old bandwagon and setup a few goals for myself. Now I believe the problem with most resolutions is that people make them too impossible to obtain and don’t get accountability. Like “I want to lose 25lbs”, or “I want to quit smoking”.
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about adding to my life in terms of diversity. It is really easy to get into a routine, live the same life, day in and day out. To truly become a well rounded person we need to have a bit of change, diversity, and other ways of thinking come into our picture. So this year, I want to really make an attempt to try, read, go, to places that are new to me. Hopefully, by this time next year, I will be able to cross each item on this list. Now I might change the list as I think about this more, but for the time being this will get me started.
1. Read a book I expect to disagree with completely.
2. Go somewhere I have never been.
3. Meet someone I did not know existed before today.
4. Eat a restaurant I have never been and order something I have never had.
5. Strike up a serious conversation with a stranger.
6. Discover 3 bands/artists in 3 different genres of music that I don’t normally listen to that I like.
7. Rent a movie that I have never heard of and know nothing about.
8. Attend a concert where I do not know the style of music.
9. Attend a play that I know nothing about.
10. Make a serious attempt to get published.
I like round numbers. 10 is a nice round number, and I think this list covers most areas of my life, that I tend to neglect in a day to day basis. We get into ruts and routines, and sometimes we just need a small kick start to change our perspective on things. Our view point needs to constantly evolve, or the world will pass us by in flash.
Here is to 2009, my 10 year high school renion and making a small attempt at diversifying my life.
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To me, these are more bucket-list items than a traditional New Years Resolution. I think resolutions are more of a conscious gradual change (hence the “year” part) while these are things that peak your interest. Completeing a resolution should almost never be interesting beause they’re things that you need to discipline yourself to change.
That being said, I totally agree with you on the diversity thing. These are certainly goals that can add some spice to your life. I understand your reasoning behind them too. Resolution brings about some kind of growth, while these just diversify your ronutine. However, I do thik they’re some great sugestions to change your norm.
Unless one feels that their life lacks diversity, thus this small itemized list is a way to discipline myself in changing or expanding an area of my life that I feel is lacking.
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