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Friday, January 2, 2009
What will 2009 hold for you?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We are at the beginning of 2009 and the good news is that if you’re reading this you’re still with us. The bad news is your 401K may very well be on life support.
Resolutions New Year’s resolutions, also called “Things I Wouldn’t Bet On” are sometimes set up to fail. Don’t use it for a vent about what you didn’t accomplish of last year’s resolution list but rather be practical. Instead of saying “I’m going to lose forty pounds in two weeks,” try saying “I’m going to lose two pounds in forty weeks.”
Attainable? I think so.
My buddy Franco who’s a retired hippie is a true child of the sixties. He went to Woodstock and Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970) where he saw Jimi Hendrix, Jethro Tull, Allman Brothers, Johnny Winter, Captain Beefheart (remember him?) and according to Franco, Jesus a few times. He has the short-term memory of stapler.
He says has the same resolutions each year because they’re easy to keep up with.
They are:
Meet Ravi Shankar and buy him a drink.
Meet David Allen Coe and buy him a drink.
Meet Hank Williams Jr. and buy him a drink.
Meet Rusty Van Borston and buy him a drink. (I don’t know who he is either.)
I asked him if he ever actually accomplishes them. He said he’s accomplished about half of them. He didn’t actually get to meet them but he did have the drinks.
Whatever works?
The fact is resolutions should maybe put you in the ballpark of where you want to go and should probably go along with the times. For instance, maybe make a resolution to cut back on the hours at your third job you’re trying to keep so you can get some money back into your crippled 401K or like me, instead of getting depressed about looking older every time I look in the mirror, I vow not to look in the mirror so much.
