Happy new stuff, whatever it is for you.
Challenge words. Resolutions. Goals. Bucket lists. Commitments. Promises. By its very nature, the "new year" offers us a chance to look at things with fresh eyes. We assess what's important to us, what we want to leave behind, and who we want to be. Whether we formalize it or not, I think we all have a moment where we take stock. I don't make New Year's resolutions for one simple reason: I don't follow through on them. My goals and the changes that I make show up in my life whenever they please, and not once that happened on January 1. This year, however, I do have something that I want. So (for an indeterminate amount of time), I'm going to ask myself a question every time I decide to do something: "What is the goal here?" More importantly, I have to remove my own expectations for artificially lofty and grandiose answers. It's just as well: 2020 didn't leave me with a lot of tolerance for that anyway. I don't care what my answers are...