The older you get, the faster the years seem to fly by. At least that's how it seems to me. Here we are
in 2009 already and I'm still working on my New Year's resolutions for 2008. We're now just a year from 2010 and I'm going to be asking myself, "What happened to that decade? Where did it go? Was I in a coma or something?"
I'm a family man with little children, so I didn't do much celebrating, especially compared to all those carefree people dancing on my TV screen. Many of them were in NYC (New Year City) of course:
As the clock struck midnight, a ton of confetti rained down while the partygoers hugged and kissed.
Josh Torres and his girlfriend, Sarah Manganello, both 21, screamed and cheered as they watched the ball drop. Manganello had advice for people in the new year: "Learn from what you've done and move forward." [Link]
That's good advice. Sometimes I find myself making the same mistakes over and over. Not learning from them. Just repeating them. If you do things the same way, you get the same results. That's why I'm going to do things differently this year. I'm going to make some drastic changes. For example:
1. I'm going to type with my toes. Typing with my fingers has gotten me nowhere. I still haven't written a great novel.
2. I'm going to have dessert first. Before any of my kids get to it. "Sorry kids," I'm going to say. "I've finished the pie. Feel free to have a second helping of spinach."
3. I'm going to agree with my wife -- whatever she says. Disagreeing with her is like having stock in General Motors -- it just doesn't pay any dividends. So I'm going to say "Yes, dear" more and "Hello couch" less.
more than a few minutes outdoors at a time. I can't imagine spending four days exposed to such weather, as an Alberta man recently did. After just a a few hours, I'd be writing my will in the snow.
football on TV, you say to yourself, "Even I could have thrown that ball," knowing full well that the only thing you've been able to throw recently is a fit. When you read about some whiz kid who applied a mathematical principle to the field of astronomy and earned a Ph.D., you say to yourself, "Even I could have applied a mathematical principle," knowing full well that the only thing you've applied recently is 