I don’t do New Year’s resolutions any more. There is a good reason for this as I never keep them ,like 90% of all others who do each New Years beginning. Sounds good to make proposed positive changes in your life, at the beginning of each year like a race starting line. However, it is relics of the past for me. Change, especially in behaviors are never easy and only successfully done in small continuous changes. I keep a monthly “to-do –lists”, as being of advance age, time is moving every increasingly to warp speed. The Japanese call small continuous changes” Kaizan”, it’s all about accomplishments that are not overly optimistic and not based on gross changes. I may not have enough time to finish big projects so Kaizan works for me. Above all no fucking gezeer “bucket list”, just because I am old enough to remember using a slide rule in school.
So in January, everyone except me, starts the year off with some New Years’s Resolutions taking for example joining a gym or making more money. However, experience tells me after some changes in scheduling sometime in February, the elation of a new year’s wears off. Fast forward to November of that year, and there is no resemblance of a plan initially proposed on your resolution list. If I get at least some progress of change on one item, I am a winner for that year. Myself I never had to make that New Year’s resolution to join a gym; WTF, I own a gym!
This year’s accomplishments for self improvement are mostly minor issues to be carried out in good Kaizan form .
1. Continue to Work on joint mobility more prior to training in shoulders and hips, so I don’t get as stiff as a bride grooms dick!
2. I have a shit load of Kettlebell and dumbbells, so use them more in all the Crossfit WOD’s each day. Yes, that includes to 130# dumbbells and 46kg Kettlebells to keep the dust collecting on them.
3. Keep the daily WODs short but heavy. Once again it an attentions span thing.
4.Go back to daily rides on one of my three bikes, but not during rush hour so I don’t become a hood fixture. I almost forgot my 4th Bike, my “Street Bob HD”!
That’s just a small example of my “daily to-do-list. However, go a head making your New years resolutions! it’s a positive thought and that all good!
RUFF.
