Posted by
Daniel Crandall on Monday, January 01, 2007 2:03:05 PM
My wife encourages me to write down my New Year's Resolutions. Dennis Prager, live this New Year's Day, encourages folks to make at least 3: one for health, one for happiness and one for character. So here goes.
My health resolution is easy. I started practicing Tai Chi and Kung Fu this past year. I resolve to practice these martial arts on a more frequent basis during 2007. My goal is to do more of the physical training required as well as a little of each art each day.
Now the happiness resolution. My 2007 New Year's Resolution that I think will increase my happiness is to write more. So my goal to reach this resolution is to devote more time to this blog, work on some story ideas and put more effort into screenwriting.
The character one is a probably the toughest one. I think I will start, for 2007, to work on being nicer to those who would be mean to me. I have certainly learned, as I try to keep our neighborhood safe from those who would deface it, that nothing frustrates the mean and nasty than someone unaffected by their meanness and nastiness. When I try to remind myself to do this I always think about the Biblical passage in Romans, "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."