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Craft a prudent resolution that
irritates
Holidays are
the best times to practice your story
telling.
Let me reword that.
It is the best time to practice
telling your story.
Here’s why it
matters.
To tell your story, you must
first organize your thoughts.
In telling it, you will remember
what you have already achieved.
As you listen to yourself, you
will realize how resilient you are.
Best of all, telling it reminds
you that you are still writing it.
Telling your
story is easy because you already tell
stories every day.
You tell customers why they
should do business with you; you tell
suppliers what your needs are; you tell
stories to your bank, your accountant,
and so on.
I simply
think it’s time to craft a better story.
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Calling on Dear Prudence
This year I’m
going to craft a better story by being a
prude.
No, not a prude as in ‘easily
shocked by matters relating to sex or
nudity’.
At my age, it takes a little more
to shock me.
Like how
easily circumstances can change, how
quickly some things so right can become
so very wrong, how past success can
create current failure.
This is why
I’m going to be a prude, as in prudent.
I plan to avoid undesired
consequences.
Whenever I am tempted by a golden
opportunity, or faced with a risky
situation with ‘up-side potential’, I’m
going to hum that Beatles song from
their White Album.
The one called ‘Dear Prudence’.
Apparently, John Lennon wrote
it as “a simple plea to a friend to
‘snap out of it.”
So that’s how I plan to have a
better year in 2011 – by making sure
that prudence snaps me out of 2010
behavior.
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Resolute formula for failure
As we raced
to the finishing of 2010, you
probably looked back and evaluated
the good and bad that the year
coughed up for you.
Or, if you prefer the formal
HR approach, you did a performance
appraisal based on your successes
and failures, and allocated blame
and credit according to your
tolerance for remorse.
Next, following tradition, you read up on Eight Steps to fame and
fortune, which you then used to
craft your resolutions for results
and strategies for success in 2011.
Well,
this time I did something completely
different.
I developed my formula for
failure.
Come on!
We all know that resolutions
don’t stick.
Resolutions are about
behaving better. I think resolutions
to behave badly stick more easily.
This means
that if I apply my formula for
failure, I am more likely to
succeed.
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Irritated into being a better me
You think my
‘formula for failure’ is too negative?
Then try this.
Choose one tiny resolution, one
with huge clout, and then make it stick
at least once a week.
Here’s mine:
I will spend time with a friend.
Easy, yes, but where’s the clout?
The clout is
in the meaning of ‘friend’.
You see, acquaintances and
so-called ‘friends’ on social networks
accept me as I appear to them.
So do most people I interact with
daily.
I don’t mind them and they don’t
mind me.
But friends!
They put up with how I project
myself today, yet they persistently see
me as how I could be.
And then they love me into
wanting to be this better me.
How irritating!
So, here’s my
resolution: I will visit at least one
friend a week and be irritated into
being better than last year.
∞
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friend?
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