Resolution

It's just my luck that the Mayan apocalypse didn't happen so now I'm stuck trying to come up with a New Year's resolution to start 2013 off with.  The problem is these things never seem to work out for me.  I just thought that was a personal problem of mine until I read a statistic.  A paper in the University of Scranton Journal of Clinical Psychology published 12-13-12 stated that only 8% of people were successful in achieving their resolution.

What is it about New Year's resolutions that make them so hard to keep?  When you think about it what are New Year's resolutions but promises to yourself to do something for yourself.

I was thinking about this when I came across this picture posted to Facebook by David Gerrold.

I seem to remember I had some pretty good ideas about what my life was going to be like when I got out of high school.  Somewhere along the road those ideas got buried under the worries of day to day life.  

This year I think I am going to go back to working on an old promise to myself and see where that leads me. I think it's about time.