New Year's Resolutions

I wasn't going to make any New Year's Resolutions, but then I read Alain de Botton's piece about them. I wasn't going to make any because I always break them, but then that's not the point, according to the article.

And yet we need resolutions - even if we don’t actually manage to carry them through or rather, precisely because we rarely manage to do so. Trying to lead a moral and a good life must mean regularly daring ourselves to be good.

So I thought, Oh go on then...

Here goes.

1. I will take care of my spiritual needs.
2. I will do something creative.
3. I will do something to help others. (I already have two things in mind here, but the details are a bit hazy at the moment.)
4. I will lose weight.