Forget the Days of Unleavened Bread for setting new goals for the new year! For one thing, if you’re planning to change your life after the Passover, you’re just procrastinating. Start the New Year right in 2017 and start now! Don’t put it off! It’s just nasty human nature for you to keep putting it off.
Just remember that even a little progress is progress!
Here at The Painful Truth we have some New Year’s Resolutions (which look a lot like last year’s resolutions, but why mess with success?): Post more watchdog articles (thanks Wes White!), make the Armstrongist 1% even more uncomfortable, get Armstrongists to ignore us more actively because they are so uncomfortable with the truth we are persecuting them with, demand more accountability for Armstrongist 1%ers and occasionally expose some more misdeeds and make certain (you know who you are) people become very angry so they’ll make even more BIG very stupid mistakes! While we keep hoping that the evil aggressive belligerent predatory Criminal Minds type narcissists will repent, we have the Resolution that if they don’t we’ll be satisfied because that was what we expected all along after all — it’s who they are and our job is to expose them, not to transform them.
Of course, you won’t be able to set and keep your resolutions alone, so we’ve engaged our good friend Thomas Sanders to get you where you need to be and get up to speed in good order:
Of course, looking ahead to what they’re going to do in 2017 means something entirely different for the good folks over at Science News:
It was our resolution to torture Armstrongists with science.
What’s CRISPR again???!!!
Resolution 1 accomplished!
My single resolution:
Become more tolerant of my own shortcomings.
Unfortunately, it was sorely tried on the very first day of the new year. I botched what should have been a simple faucet repair and had to call a plumber to to fix my mistake, after turning off the water at the pump and waiting for the holidays to pass. I spent several hours wallowing in self-loathing, culminating in an abject confession to the plumber of my incompetence. That humiliation was necessary because he needed the information in order to do me any good.
It occurs to me that this anecdote, suitably elaborated, could make an excellent parable for some preaching elder short on ideas for a sermonette. If you are such a one, welcome to the story. I have no plans to preach a sermonette. True, I am an elder, but only in the chronological sense and not the ecclesiastical one.
1.) Don’t be so damn hard on yourself.
2.) Procrastinate your procrastinations.
3.) Use your strengths to play with your weaknesses.
And have you acknowledged yet, that alot of your bad decisions were usually made when you were in a bad mood?
But what about your good decisions? I’ll bet most of them stemmed from a good mood. So, if you want to make better decisions, start with your attitude first.
A culture parable.