Reflective upon "resolutional"!
THERE'S a few sayings that stick in my 26-year-old brain.
My step-granddad's: "Failure means success is possible."
Confucius's: "It doesn't matter how slow you go, so long as you don't stop."
Dad's: "What you miss out on the round-a-about you pick up on the hurdy gurdie."
Sorry Dad, you did instil a great deal of wisdom in me over the years, it's just that I can't move on from the word "hurdy gurdie".
Instead of going straight to bed after an exhausting day of shows on Saturday night, I made the mistake of looking through previous blogs I'd written. Not to revel in my own self importance, or reflect on my try-hard hilarity, but rather to see if there were any themes that I could perpetuate in future blogs.
I stumbled upon my first blog for the year which ambitiously stated my 14 resolutions.
So, by way of an update, I thought I'd let you know I've achieved one, two, three...NO RESOLUTIONS.
"But it's okay guys...I'm on track with all of them."- which is what I would say if I actually was.
*palm hits forehead ferociously while I ask myself agressively,"What have you done all year then?!"
There's no need to get into the resolutions I could have completed but haven't, but if you really want to be a bastard about it you can view the original blog here.
The highlights are: I haven't finished my novel, I'm not a fighting fit 60kgs, my savings haven't flourished and seeing as I was in my pjs at 10am yesterday, I did not complete the Bridge to Brisbane.
To make myself feel better while feeling slightly distressed, I thought about what I had achieved in the last nine months.
I could list them here, but that would be way too "Miss America" of me, and my "In pursuit of happiness" blog a couple of weeks' ago was too close to that for my liking - plus, as per the above, I'm not one to stick with themes.
Instead of trying to summon any kind of wonderful excuse or even more wonderful sayings for inspirations, I decided I'd just crack on and try and get some of the resolutions checked off in the next four months or so.
Well, at least the important ones....novel anyone? Getting fit? Boosting my savings account?
"Have I told you I'm writing a novel?" has been at the top of my interesting-things-to-say list when meeting people. I really hope I can exchange the "I'm writing" to "I've completed" before 2015 rears its hideous head or I'll have to keep meeting new people and discarding the old so they don't hold me accountable.
In the end, failure does mean success is possible, and I haven't failed yet - hell, I've still got almost four months! Plenty of time to complete 14 resolutions.
Fortunately my 15th wasn't "world peace".
Actually, I've only got three months. I'm going to spend the rest of September trying to work out what a hurdy gurdie has to do with anything.
-Ends-
My step-granddad's: "Failure means success is possible."
Confucius's: "It doesn't matter how slow you go, so long as you don't stop."
Dad's: "What you miss out on the round-a-about you pick up on the hurdy gurdie."
Sorry Dad, you did instil a great deal of wisdom in me over the years, it's just that I can't move on from the word "hurdy gurdie".
Instead of going straight to bed after an exhausting day of shows on Saturday night, I made the mistake of looking through previous blogs I'd written. Not to revel in my own self importance, or reflect on my try-hard hilarity, but rather to see if there were any themes that I could perpetuate in future blogs.
I stumbled upon my first blog for the year which ambitiously stated my 14 resolutions.
So, by way of an update, I thought I'd let you know I've achieved one, two, three...NO RESOLUTIONS.
"But it's okay guys...I'm on track with all of them."- which is what I would say if I actually was.
*palm hits forehead ferociously while I ask myself agressively,"What have you done all year then?!"
There's no need to get into the resolutions I could have completed but haven't, but if you really want to be a bastard about it you can view the original blog here.
The highlights are: I haven't finished my novel, I'm not a fighting fit 60kgs, my savings haven't flourished and seeing as I was in my pjs at 10am yesterday, I did not complete the Bridge to Brisbane.
To make myself feel better while feeling slightly distressed, I thought about what I had achieved in the last nine months.
I could list them here, but that would be way too "Miss America" of me, and my "In pursuit of happiness" blog a couple of weeks' ago was too close to that for my liking - plus, as per the above, I'm not one to stick with themes.
Instead of trying to summon any kind of wonderful excuse or even more wonderful sayings for inspirations, I decided I'd just crack on and try and get some of the resolutions checked off in the next four months or so.
Well, at least the important ones....novel anyone? Getting fit? Boosting my savings account?
"Have I told you I'm writing a novel?" has been at the top of my interesting-things-to-say list when meeting people. I really hope I can exchange the "I'm writing" to "I've completed" before 2015 rears its hideous head or I'll have to keep meeting new people and discarding the old so they don't hold me accountable.
In the end, failure does mean success is possible, and I haven't failed yet - hell, I've still got almost four months! Plenty of time to complete 14 resolutions.
Fortunately my 15th wasn't "world peace".
Actually, I've only got three months. I'm going to spend the rest of September trying to work out what a hurdy gurdie has to do with anything.
-Ends-
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