Resolutions
With the advent of the new year beginning at midnight, I though I would simply list some of my resolution for myself in 2025:
- I am going to try for a sixth year of "Running the Year". I had hemmed and hawed about striving for this again. I have really lost some of my "zest" for running (but that may be due to other emotions), so I hesitated. But, I would like to try for one more year.
- Spending more time with my wife in "play" (like swimming, just having fun, etc.)
- I am resolving to post here six days a week. Some posts may be small, but the interaction with you is very important to me, and the ability for me to have a place to lay out my harder emotions is also important for me. As part of this, I also plan to list TWO scores on a post..... a) a score about my feeling of "happiness" (perhaps I will call it my contentedness score), and b) a return of my "Pipe Craving Score" as I do admit that seeing and putting this score WAS helpful for me.
- I am aiming to enact the AA Serenity Prayer as a way to focus my life more towards feeling and experiencing joy.
- Spending less of my emotional energy budget on things I cannot control, change, or affect.
- Immersing myself more in my Roman Catholic faith, especially in immersing in the Capuchin perspectives.
- Reincorporate Arm & Chest Weight Strengthening Exercise in my life (lost at the start of Covid)
- Spending more time with my siblings.
- Continuing to enjoy the friendship of the Retiree's Cigar Group.... although there is a worry/issue with timing next semester.
- Finding time more to enjoy music.
- Find a way to successfully incorporate an occasional pipe in my life.
- Read more fiction. I spend so much time reading, but not as much is for pleasure as I would like.
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P.S. Here is the full "AA Serenity Prayer" that I think has great value for me:
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
3 Comments:
These are all very worthy goals to strive for. The idea is to move forward toward them (in my opinion) and not consider oneself a failure if they are not quite reached. Progress is key. My best to your family and you--always!
Sir, to get some zest back in running, I suggest you resolve to run a half-marathon race (13.1 miles) this year. I am your age and have run 2 of them and plan on running another in August. And you are a much stronger runner than I am. My first one I finished last place. The second I finished third from last. Finishing, plus having a crowd of people cheering for you is an amazing thing. Trust me on this.
You have a lot of resolutions because you are a thoughtful and sincere guys who always strives to do your best.
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