One resolution for 2014
It’s the last day of 2013 and I’ve been sitting with the question of what I actually want to do differently in 2014. Not what I should do, not what sounds good on a vision board, but what I genuinely want to change about how I spend my time. I’ve made lists before. Five resolutions, ten resolutions, the whole lot. Write more, exercise more, read more, save more, learn a language, cut out social media, meditate every morning. By February I’d abandoned at least eight of them, and the ones I kept were half-hearted at best. The problem was never discipline. It was that I was trying to change everything at once, which is just a fancy way of saying I wasn’t going to change anything at all. ...