Resolve and a Rule for the New Year by Michael Valliant New Year’s resolutions are not a tradable currency. Many of them disappear like so many January gym memberships. I gave up trying to come up with them. But there is something I know I need more of in the coming year: resolve. Think of it as a mindset, an approach to the year and to life. There are two writers who give glimpses into what resolve might mean for us: Anne Lamott and St. Benedict of Nursia.
2021 was a year that often felt like treading water, at times going under, often not feeling like I was getting anywhere. I would get done the daily tasks that needed to happen, move on to the next day, the next things on the to-do list, then crash, feeling stuck. Welcome to life in a pandemic. Resolve says keep at it; get back up. I can do more. Lamott’s book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and
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