Resolutions. Schmesolutions (Saying goodbye to the disposable coffee cup and to resolutions)
To resolve or not to resolve? That's the question.
Im usually big on the New Year's pledges. Big on making the promises. Small on following through.
I forgot til I just looked it up, how many stupid resolutions I made last year. (No, Im not linking to it. Hmmh).
But the other thing I did last year, which Im liking better than resolutions anyway, is set 101 goals to accomplish within 1001 days. I call it "The List."
Ive knocked off 16 of those goals, 85 to go with 847 days remaining. It's fun. The big goal is of course to check off all 101 but it's real rewarding to knock off the little goals as you go.
I only stayed serious about one of my original traditional resolutions last year: I wanted to avoid using disposable coffee cups. By Jan. 7th Id already used two. By the end of June Id hit four and it wasnt til the third week of December, that my number slipped up to six.
Travelling is the hard part. Ive easily eliminated the disposable coffee cup from my daily life. I have my own mug at work and if I buy a coffee out, I sit down and enjoy it properly.
Four of my sins this year came while on the road with a group. Things get harder to control. And one thing I have no control over at this point: I need good strong coffee at good short intervals.
I am working on the coffee addiction and am down to three mugs a day.
Plus Santa offered some help going forward: my shiny new coffee thermos should help me avoid a few of those mid-drive coffee panics. And Im just going to have to say no in the future to the well-intentioned offers of my travelling companions.
Cause in 2011, I resolve to use not one single disposable coffee cup.
Do me a favour: dont let me forget!