Life Gets in the Way...
“Best laid plans”, right? In 1785, Robert Burns wrote “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go astray”. How often do we make a plan, follow up with a real commitment, then let life get in the way? I imagine we all have experienced this. The most frequently cited example of this is our failed New Year’s resolutions. According to US News and World Report, there is an estimated failure rate of 80% of people to keep their New Year’s resolutions by February, and only 8% of people stick with them the entire year. A relevant example for me is this blog. I started it in 2020 with the full intention of adding new entries at least a few times a week, and then I got a new job, as mentioned in a previous post. I let this new job get in the way because it led to 50+ hours of work a week… add this to my life at the time, and I let blogging take a back seat. So here we go again. Time to revitalize, take a hard look at what I am doing and reset the course for the “fourth q...