What is the guarantee? There is no guarantee. But we still keep putting off things to weekends, next week, sometime next month and such. While there are a hundred things that you want to do, there are also hundreds of limiting forces that force you to scratch things off the calendar. A lazy person like me always needed a reminder, and this couplet was always present to remind me of the scarcity of time.
[Do tomorrow’s work today, today’s now. The apocalypse will come in a moment, and you won’t get the time to do your work.]
It is a new year and the time for new resolutions. There are still 11 more months to at least start what I hoped to do in the last couple of years.
I have been putting this off for a long time. I didn’t give it much importance earlier. But as days have gone by, a professional family portrait is looking more and more important. So getting this done will be my first priority. To convince everyone at home, get them all to agree on a time and date to go to a photo studio and have that professional photo in place. Although this is something we should do every year, getting it done at least once is my immediate target.
Learning is a continuous activity that never stops and should never stop. The day we stop challenging ourselves to do something new, life becomes still and we stop to grow. I have heard that the ability to learn new language diminishes each year. So I am going to begin self-study of at least one foreign language this year.
And no New Year resolution can be complete without taking a pledge to shake-off our sedentary lifestyle and strive to become more active. Last year I read an amazing book by Josh Mathe about his superhuman effort as he conquered the 212-mile John Muir trail. This inspired me so much that I decided to start small runs and work toward running long distances at a decent pace.
I don’t know how many of these I will be complete this year. But I know I will start these without further procrastination.
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