New Year’s Resolutions: What To Do and How To Do It -Part I

Stardate 95605.01

Does that mean anything to you ?

34,200 Seconds. What’s that ? Huff, that is a lot of numbers.

01.01.2018 is the date, it might as well be the “stardate” (I used this site for the stardate, and Calculate me for the seconds into the day)

Did you set up the date ? Did you ? I know you didn’t. It was somebody else. It was somebody else who made up the rules.

This is the time of the year when people make New Year’s resolutions and it’s been shown most of people fail them.

If I’m going to fail, I’m going to “fail” smarter !

This is How to Do It:

I gave the stardate and the seconds examples to show how meaningless the calendar is.

Getting things is done though failing inaccurate calendar goals.

Set up your goals, but do it in smaller time increments. Set up goals for the week, goals for week two, goals for January, goals for 3 months, and maximum stretch 6-months goals.

Live by the hour. I already showed you how meaningless the calendar is (anybody wanna tell me what year is in the Egyptian or Mayan calendar, please do so in the comments. It’s the same shit).
Living by the hour brings a sense or order and urgency to your life. It is better than living by the month or year.

Suppose one NY resolution is to lose 5 pounds in 3 months. Make it losing 1.6 pounds in one month instead.

Imagine one month has passed and you’ve only lost one pound.

Do this
Since you’ve got some momentum, DO NOT set the bar to catch up, i.e. lose 2.6 pounds in the month of February, and DON’T go as low as you did last month (one pound), instead set it in between i.e. 1.3 pounds. If you shed 1.3 pounds in February, you got it ! And if you followed, I don’t need to write it for March. Saying it “losing 5 pounds in 3 months” was the wrong goal you began with, but you’ve managed it though. You’ve “failed it” because it wasn’t the right goal to begin with.

For 0-to-1s goals,”exponential” goals, the process may look like a straight line, but it isn’t. You must close the string and unlike the losing weight example, you don’t know how close you are at any given time.  Let’s call things like getting from 0 to 1 binary goals,: getting a job when you don’t have one, for example.

Getting a (new) job, or going for a (new) career (everyone should know the difference between a job and a career, but will discuss them as one here) is an example of the quantum theory of gravity. “The fundamental objects of the string theory are open and closed strings.” (M-theory). “Interactions between open strings can always result in closed strings”.

Getting a job must be an outcome already achieved in the mind. It needs to feel as if already present. What if you set the goal of getting a new job in a month, and coming February, you still haven’t gotten it ? Have you failed ?

1. No, you haven’t failed since your mind is certain.
2. 30 days simply wasn’t a goal. It’s the garbage calendar that screws you up. I made that point already.
3. What the fuck then ?

You’re up the mountain, I can’t tell you if you’re at 10%, 50%, 75% or 99%  to it, but since this is a string, not a linear line, you can’t see how close you are. ” Not all string theories contain open strings, but every theory must contain closed strings.”

It’s now March. Still no job. Now what ? It is -still- one through three as above. We are assuming you know how much you need (any honest employer will ask that question or already give you the market rate and you’re comfortable) and that you’re not applying for a job you’re not qualified for.

To recap,

The calendar is wrong.
Live by the hour. If you live by the hour, things like it’s 2017 or it’s 2018 will start having less and less meaning.

Tips for the New Year, New Me:

Use “Yes, and” (this comes from improv comedy), but and is very useful.

Use “I get it.”