'Tis the season for resolutions!
And I am NOT a big resolution guy. I used to be, but not anymore. As I get older, I tend to make resolutions, take inventory, and make course corrections throughout the year, as opposed to waiting for the "I'm gonna change everything about my life starting on January first NEXT year" approach.
It just seems to make more sense. We can spend time with self-examination, to-do-lists, and vision/planning work every day of the year. Why wait until the ragged end of the old year to think about the days to come?
So, if I make any resolutions at all, I try to avoid the grand gestures and look, instead, at the small stuff.
My plan for 2014 is simple... and it's a continuation of a practice that I've been following for several weeks already:
I am going to physically dial the phone numbers of the people who are close to me.
Before the invention of the cell phone, it was very common for an ordinary person to have twenty phone numbers (or more) committed to memory.
Your closest friends, your relatives, important business associates... there was a time that we knew each others phone numbers.
This is one of the ways that technology is making us dumb. Do you know the phone numbers for the important people in your life?
For me, the answer is often "no." After all, I don't need this information... it's all in my phone!
The only problem is, this makes me completely dependent on a small electronic device that can easily be lost, broken, or stolen. Much better if I have one or two phone numbers in my head, in case I need to use them in an unusual circumstance.
I'm going "old school" for the new year. When I call my close friends, family, or business associates, I'm going to take the extra fifteen seconds to actually dial the number. I bet I'll have a dozen numbers memorized by the first of February.
What are your plans for 2014?
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