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Is There Always a Path to Choose?
Yes, but you alone can decide on it.
Everyone experiences at least two “New Years” annually. One is the change of the calendar, December 31 into January 1. The other is your birthday and the change of the year for you and your life.
With the start of a new year, many people set goals and make various plans to a greater or lesser extent for what their life might look like. At the start of the calendar year, there are often resolutions. Go to the gym more, read more, quit smoking, eat less junk food, and so on. Twelve years ago, I realized that resolutions were the equivalent of “try” in Yoda’s “Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.” They have no gravitas, no drive to be acted on.
Thus, all those years ago, I chose to take action for my new year. Instead of blogging randomly, without any set time or schedule, I’d blog once a week, every week, on Wednesday.
The primary purpose of setting a time and doing the thing to blog more regularly was to further spur more frequent and regular writing on my part. After all, writing has been a compulsion of mine since I was 9 years old.
This is the path I’ve seen for my life over most of my life. Storytelling, especially as a writer, is the gift I desire to share with the world.
