The revision

Ha! Well, I totally should have seen this coming.  All the same, here is what I'm actually going to do this year.  It all started with me checking Twitter this morning--my this morning, that is; I woke up at 10:15 today--and Jon Acuff tweeted a link to a new post from his blog.  (You can read it here.)

I really like his idea because, well, I kinda don't want to do it this way.  It goes against everything I'm used to.  What do I mean, specifically?  I mean, I don't like to admit when something isn't working.  I mean, I like to pretend like I'm able take on tasks even if they are unrealistic.  I mean, I don't like the idea of letting go of the ways I've always done things even if there's a better one.  To bring what I'm trying to say around full circle in its application of my own life:

Take the goals I've come up with, for example.  I already don't like the thought of getting to the end of the short periods of time (52 days), assessing how well I kept to a goal, and then deciding what to do as a result.  Because sometimes I may find that I, in fact, will need to let go of a goal that I haven't stuck to very well.

I think that that may be [one of] the downfall[s] in me.  What if my stubbornness in letting go of a goal that I haven't stuck to has actually kept me from moving on to one that I would otherwise turn out to be awesome at?  That's pretty crazy to think about.  And just think about how many times that has been the case throughout my entire life?  Hm, wow, okay.  This new method is starting to get more and more appealing all the time.

I'm definitely on board for this new way of goal setting.  Anyone want to join?  It's definitely crunch time with it being the 1st and all, but I'm going to have to revise the goals that I started with and the list is probably going to wind up looking very different from the original, but...

I'm looking forward to it!