Resolutions

New Year’s resolution status: Daily journalling is going strong, reading a book a week is proving to be challenging (reading books takes forever!). Still committed though, will try to make up for it as soon as possible. If I get to the end only having read one a fortnight, I won’t be too cut up about it. I’ve also tacked on daily blogging as a third resolution, but I find it can interfere with journalling if I start to think about how other people might percieve my thoughts.

I find those two activities make a world of difference for me just by forcing ‘slower’ thinking for a short time each day. I’m on autopilot for as long as I don’t do them, which for the last couple years has been most of the time. There’s just a limit to how far you can follow a train of thought without writing it down. And if you don’t follow any trains of thought, oh boy, you’re in bigger trouble than you realise.

I don’t think intelligence is as much of an issue as using what you have effectively. I’m not smart, at all. I’m only borderline functional. I just force myself to think about some important things long enough to make ANY decision (doesn’t even have to be a good one), and here we are.