Well new year, new me. A good saying to remember this coming year by Theodore Roosevelt “do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are”. That is a direct contradiction to what I mostly hear, “the world is a miserable place and there’s nothing I can do about It”. How about some New Year’s resolutions that you can actually keep to some extent. Social Scientists say most of these resolutions are abandoned after two weeks.
Global warming and the environment can be helped by planting a tree. My mother and I planted a liveoak tree the month I left for college to commentate her two children going to college, the only one of her ten siblings to accomplish this. My father and she never graduated from school as going to work in the depression to survive. She’s been gone almost 50 years and I can hear bells tolling in the distance for me, but that tree is still standing tall and proud.
Start a compost pile in the backofyouryardinsteadofthrowing the material in the trash or down a garbage disposal. Twice a year remove some of the material on the bottom and put on the yard. Instead of throwing leaves out as trash mulch them when mowing.
Next the most frightening suggestion, get some scales and use them. You’ll have the same apprehension as waiting to see what your test score was in school. One of the main reasons it climbs is sugar consumption has doubled over the last 100 years on average. Concentrate on this one thing.
Finally set a modest exercise routine that you can try to do everyday, to the degree it becomes almost automatic. My thought is if it hurts, quit doing it, sort of like hitting your thumb with a hammer.
Finally, instead of wishing you could get a great financial planner or hit the lottery, how about using the old Cotton Gin Store advise from 75 years ago, spend less than you have and make do with what you have until it won’t make do anymore.
Follow these steps and join the Teddy Roosevelt Society.
