My new-year resolutions down the years!
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S Deenadayalan | Dec 26, 2009
At 58, I reflect upon the last four decades of my life’s journey (starting at 18) and marvel at the number of resolutions taken with all earnestness and broken with equal earnestness. Some of them are given below.
1. From 1969 to 1992, my one resolution was to quit smoking. But Wills power was stronger than my will power. Wills was my favourite brand of cigarettes.
2. Celibacy practice – I stuck to it in the physical sense but never at the mental level.
3. Keeping commitments and time management – as far as possible. How convenient!
4. Will not condemn, criticise and complain – resolutely strong to make this resolution every year but with little success. And this year will not be an exception.
5. Aggressively spot only good things in people. But it seems to me that I am the only person in the world with good things. Match my ego!
6. I will be very good – except lying every now and then.
7. Practise before preaching. Since I am told to do simple things first, I stop with preaching.
8. I will not be a slave of the computer. The computer has not permitted me to do so – waiting for the mouse-click approval.
9. Definitely bar on bars from the end 2008 to beginning 2009.
10. Will come home on time. Yes, it is the only resolution that I keep up but then it is anybody’s home I come to!
My experience is that most resolutions last for a few hours to a few days. Jokes apart, one learning I have had is to take a public oath before people who respect you, and the chances of your standing by the oath are for higher than a resolution made on your own. Of course this is only for fickle-minded people like me. My guess is that most people fall in this category. Maybe I don’t meet great people.
Happy new year!
S. Deenadayalan is an HR professional doing pioneering work in the field of high performance work systems. With three decade plus experience, he is a consultant to various organizations across the globe including Fortune 500 companies. Visit his website http://www.exploreceo.com
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