Yes, my taxes are finished. Sent. Done. And yes, you should be jealous.
Not really. But they are finished. I know it sounds like I'm bragging, but that's because I'm bragging.
Notice: I'm not telling you how I'm going to get them done early this year. I'm telling you they're done.
I have also cleared the file cabinet of the old papers. Yes, I have. At least the biggest chunk of them. There are a few things still to go, but it's down to a few hours of work.
And I have been getting through some serious reviews of things at work and at home. Working to get plans in place for work and home. Serious, careful plans to get real things done.
All of this, I have done, without having made a single New Year's resolution. Which is not bragging. It's simply a fact.
I've just never been big on resolutions, if by "resolutions" you mean those brief little wish statements people make at the end of the year. "This next year I'm going to do this or that!" No real plan. No real commitment to change. No serious self examination and thinking about how to follow through.
I don't like empty talk. It makes me nervous to talk about what I'd simply kind of "like" to do because I know how easy it is to talk, and yet how hard it is to actually do things that are challenging to do. I prefer the simple act of doing something and letting the doing of it be the evidence of my intent.
Matthew 5: 37 Simply let your `Yes' be `Yes,' and your`No,' `No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
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My feelings exactly, Dave. It's been YEARS since I've made any sort of resolution. I simply strive to be more like Christ and to work on those character defects that are not of Him.
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