Resolutions....sort of.

I've had a good amount of time since the new year to think about how I want 2009 to go. Some of the changes that have happened in my life since the start of 2008 have made this particularly interesting. For instance instead of simply saying I want to get into the gym more, like I would every year before this, I can now say that I want to train BJJ a certain number of days a week and more specifically I want to get into other schools to train so I can roll with some new training partners. I also want to add back weight training but not in the traditional sense. I really want to add Kettlebells and Cross Fit types of routines to my week so I can improve my muscular endurance and hopefully my competition results as a function of that. There are other areas of my life that could use goals as well. For instance, get my stupid thesis proposal done by the end of this year and publish papers in particular journals.

The reason all of this is interesting to me is because this is the first year I've been able to set specific goals. Furthermore they are goals not resolutions which is a different thing to me. Goals are more like a checklist of things to do over the course of the year and resolutions always seem to me like empty promises you make yourself. I'm at the point of my life where I want to improve and have things to check off my list instead of promising myself things that I will never deliver. This might mean I am getting wiser...or just older I'm not sure which.