The Futility of My New Year's Resolutions

I am a very firm believer in New Year's Resolutions. Each year I start to think about all the areas I need to improve in and formulate goals that will help me to improve in those areas. Unfortunately, I am much better at thinking about and making resolutions than I am at following-through and achieving them. I sat down and looked at my list today and already I am failing miserably (and we're barely a month into the year).

Well, I'm regrouping and thought sharing some of my resolutions here would maybe help to steel my resolve (besides, one of my resolutions was to do a blog post at least weekly...two birds with one stone).

A few of my resolutions, by category:

• Physical

Lose 30 lbs (bringing me below the 200 lb mark)
Run the 4th of July 5K in Grantsville (and humiliate all of my younger brothers and children)

• Mental

Read one book per month (I read long books for the most part, ok)

• Spiritual

Read the Book of Mormon all the way through
Read all of the Old Testament selections from the Sunday School student manual
100% Home Teaching
Spend at least two hours a week on my Sunday School lesson (I feel like this should be more, but don't know where to find the extra time. You're right, I could give up Idol).

• Social

Weekly blog post
Organize a get-together with old friends (these are friends I haven't seen for some time, not friends that are advanced in age)
Send out a Christmas letter (Thanks to Jeanell, we do pretty well at sending Christmas cards, but I'd like to use that opportunity to bring people up to speed on what we're up to).

A last thing I'd like to improve on is becoming more involved or at least aware of politics and the important issues facing our country. If anyone has good recommendations of websites, blogs, books, etc., please post as comments.