Stay consistent

It's hard to keep in mid the new year's resolutions throughout the year (that's why I have none : P). Seriously, I try not to have a long list of things I want to do for a year. I try to think to myself, that if I come up with a resolution throughout the year, then I will try to do it. On the spot. Make the change! Maybe the start of a solar year is a good excuse to actually try to put a lot of good intentions into practice, but I also believe that these occasions are prone to overpromising and underdelivering.

Anyway, PupilPeople has a nice poster to wish you a consistent and constant 2012. I would just add: Every year starts whenever you want if you use the right argument in your modulo function :-).

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A couple of cartoons on New Year's

*** This was meant to be published several days ago, but the schedule function of blogspot didn't work... grr... In any case, these are nice cartoons for a Sunday :)

I don't know why I totally sympathize :-).

Btw, in the article where he recently posted this cartoon he says that the rule is that you can keep on wishing happy new year until the 3rd week of January. However, in the most recent PhD Comic it says that after the 5th of January you are already a weirdo (?) . The Anatomy of a winter break is astonishingly accurate, though.

What do you say? I rather like the former. It gives me more chance to catch up with my wishes backlog...

(You can find Mankoff's cartoon at From the desk of Bob Mankoff )

Tackling new year's resolutions

Do you have many new year's resolutions? Do you write them down or keep track of them? I have to confess I am too lazy for that... and I am also afraid that if I try to do something "formal" about it, I will only be disappointed to see how I don't do any (or do just very few) of them.

So this year I decided I will just try not to procrastinate so much. It's unbelievable the time I can waste on the web by just clicking on random (sometimes very interesting) links on facebook, not to mention my Google Reader; both combined are a black hole.

To help myself I decided to use a whiteboard I have in my room. Every night I go back home I write a list of things that I would really like to have done before I go to sleep. Not too long. Important tasks are done first. Looking constantly at the list helps me to keep me focused. At least it has worked for these past couple of days :-).

Here is one other thing that I may not dare to try but I find fun and cute: temporary tattoos!! The image above is of a temporary tattoo designed by Christoph Niemann (ufff). The company that makes them,  Tattlys , has released that and other 3 new designs to help you tackle your resolutions. The other 3 designs are: Ok, Let’s Do This by Marc Johns, Oh, Hello There by Mike Lowery and Thinking of a Master Plan by Arianna Orland.

Would you ever wear any of these -- I mean, as an adult? Or what do you do to tackle your resolutions whether they are linked to the new year or not?

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