{"id":1076,"date":"2010-12-11T15:03:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T15:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2010-12-11T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T15:03:34","slug":"recurring-themes-or-just-never-achieving-what-i-set-out-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Recurring themes….or just never achieving what I set out to do…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week I was putting the diary for 2011 into my Filofax and getting rid of the old one from 2009 – I always keep last year’s just in case. I have never been known to need it, but I know for sure that if I throw it away right away I will later discover that some utterly irreplaceable imformation was in there. After a year I know that there’s nothing there worth bothering about.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that was all beside the point. What I’m actually trying to say is that while I was doing that I discovered my New Year’s Resolutions going back to 2005. It was a little scary to see that for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 my resolutions were pretty much exactly the same as they will be for this year – and I clearly haven’t ever managed to stick to them.<\/p>\n

I’m wondering if there is any point in going down the well-trodden path again. And why I have all these good intentions – and let’s face it, they aren’t just whims after 6 years on the list – and seem chronically incapable of even making a half-way decent stab at keeping them.<\/p>\n

I can, however, proudly report that I had ONE SUCCESS last year. One thing that I had decided to do, that I actually stuck to and am still doing…even as I write this.<\/p>\n

You guessed it – I wanted to have a blog – and I do and I still love blogging and wouldn’t stop even if you paid me. (Well, OK I might consider it if you paid me really a lot!).<\/p>\n

But everything else? Nada, not a hope – there has only been more weight gain; I have continued to be a major supporter of the income statements of both Amazon and the Fat Quarter Shop and I have singularly failed to read all the books waiting to be read, or reduced my fabric stash at all. Not even in the slightest on both counts. I have also not played the piano every day – which means that I STILL go to my lesson every week with a bad conscience, nor have I written anything of consequence (other than my blog, of course \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

Why have I so little self-discipline? What does this say about someone, when she can’t even manage to do the things she wants to do? You don’t need to answer that, I think I would only get depressed!<\/p>\n

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I think maybe I won’t make any resolutions this year. But I will repeat the word of the almost decade – which I really would like to focus on.<\/p>\n

SIMPLICITY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That’s the direction I see my life going in. I hope. And I’m going to try….<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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