resolved

with less than two weeks left in 2008, I can take a look back and say it was a good year. I started with the gym and stuck with it. I got a new boss that I can work for and work with. I got to vacation in Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans and Fort Lauderdale. The last of those destinations was, by far, the best for meeting new people. Overall, I do feel better about my life. Despite the sour economy, and the prospect of the new Administration making it worse before it has a chance to get better, I am in a pretty good position in life. My job is, for all intents and purposes, safe. My identity is, as far as I know, still mine. I will have an extra long weekend to vacation in 2009. I am more sure of myself. To that end, I know my life needs improvements. To that end, I make one resolution.

I stuck with the gym for a full year, despite changing trainers in the middle, and despite the dearth of clients my trainer now has. Still, at this point, I am only going to the gym on training days, and not doing any warm-up prior to starting. This needs to change. My resolution is to get to the gym two more times a week to workout on my own. Six months ago, my plan was to bail on the trainer once my contract expired, as I felt I had the commitment to carry-on on my own. I know now that is not the case. I need to make that the case.

I also need to make more a commitment away from the gym to be physical being. There are simple things I am doing to thwart what benefit the gym is having, mostly having to do with excess intake of non-beneficial carbohydrates. These need to be curtailed. What I eat, especially on workdays, needs to improve. As a supplement to the resolution, my goal is to make that happen in 2009.

I could talk about the debt I need to reduce and curtail, my career advancement, my living conditions, my social life, or lack thereof, or many other things. My commitment to my health, while improved in 2008, needs to be further improved in 2009. That is my resolution.