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2012 New Year Resolutions – What are Yours?



2012. Today marks the day when so many of us will start hoping for an awesome 2012, compared to 2011 at least. We have new plans, new goals, new dreams and new wants. For me, New Year Resolutions are simply a way to start acting on things in life on a certain date. This is like a push: giving yourself and thinking of a specific date, today, to start doing things.

Our needs may remain the same, though our wants are changing. A few years ago I wrote on how setting achievable goals was not as useful as we usually think. It seems setting New Year goals offer no help unless the goals we’re setting focus on our entire life, and not just 365 days of our life limited by a calendar year name.

Here are my 2012 plans that I’m working on to create an impact on my life that will last forever. The focus is on simplifying the complexity I’m adding to my life, and the complexity that is my life.

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A Rough View of How You View Relationships – The Poem



Lets be friends!Today you have something special coming up,
For The Reasoner has prepared for you a special poem treat,
To share with you how you or others often view relationships.
So please relax, enjoy, and have a seat!

Sometimes you wish all you friends were those you really knew,
Everyday you find out the ones you can trust are only a very few,
If you had known the close friend was close for things other than friendship,
You may not have gotten close only to find you were the means to another objective.

What if the desire to be famous really blinded you and your eyes?
What if you already had the feeling that all the smiles were hiding those little destructive blinds?
What if you did all of the bad things to your own self, thinking it was someone else’s fault sometimes?
What if you felt all right through it, even knowing beforehand the journey might be comforting at times?

Maybe you thought you had a cause!

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Thought: On setting achievable goals being a bad concept



Around December or January of every year, I notice many people talking about the goals they wish to accomplish for the coming year or the goals they wanted to accomplish for the ending year. Many people set goals that are good for their health, like losing weight, or exercising to remain slim. Many other people set financial goals, like earning money, earning more money, or paying off debt. Still, many other people have different kinds of goals that they try to coordinate around the concept of a 365-days goal period.

One thing I would like to propose to you is to start thinking of setting up goals, instead of planning to set up achievable goals. Your goals can be sorted out in ways other than the achievable and non-achievable category. You can look at a goal and think “Can this goal be pursued easily using the exact tools, resources and character that I have at my disposal at this very moment?” That way, goals which can be achieved easily can also exist along side the goals which cannot be achieved easily. Thus, your goals will exist based on what you want your goals to be and the difficulty level of their completion or progress, instead of your goals existing based on whether or not you think they can be achieved.

5 reasons setting achievable goals is a bad stereotypical trend

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Question: Do you like responding to all blog comments?



Today I have a fun question that probably applies to every blogger and every blog reader and commentor. Do you like responding to each and every blog comment?

There are two main ways you can respond to blog comments. One could be as a blogger, and the other could be as a blog reader.

Responding to comments as a blogger

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Question: Do you want guest bloggers on your blog?



This question goes hand in hand with yesterday’s question. Would you be willing to have someone else guest blog on your own blog?

Yesterday’s question focused on the question of guest blogging yourself on other blog. Today, you can focus on the question of whether or not you want others to guest blog on your own blog. Having guest bloggers can mean both more posts and more responsibilities for you and your site. If you do not currently have a blog, in the future you may have a blog where you will have a choice of either having or not having guest bloggers.

You may or may not want to have guest blogs on your blog because of various reasons:

Wanting to have Guest Bloggers vs. Not Wanting to have Guest Bloggers

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Question: Do you want to guest blog on other blogs?



This can be a bit of a more serious question than usual, though the answer may be a lot of fun depending on what you think. Do you like the idea of guest blogging on other blogs?

You may have already seen my Guest Policy here or the guest policy at RA Project, which allow you to guest blog site easily. You may have a blog of your own, or you may be a person who loves commenting instead of having a blog. You may even be a reader who prefers reading to writing. Regardless of you who may be, you may or may not like the idea of writing posts, or guest blogging, on other sites.

Wanting To Guest Blog vs. Not Wanting To Guest Blogging

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Question: Do you hope to make money from your blog?



This can be the most important question for many bloggers. Whether you are a personal blogger or a non-personal blogger, do you hope to make money from your blog?

For many people, blogs cost money. Domain names, hosting, buying layouts or logos, buying software to make layouts or logos, and a myriad of other things result in us spending money and time on our sites. Many bloggers can try different sources of income in order to cover up any expenses for their blogs. Usually, there are two ways to make money from those sources through a blog: earning money directly and indirectly.

Earning money directly vs. earning money indirectly from your blog

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Question: do you try to be formal or informal on your blog?



This question can be a fun way to see how you look at your blog readers. Do you try to be formal or informal on your blog?

Different people act differently in the offline world. Similarly, people may act informal or formal depending on their own character and also depending on the situation. Do you try be formal or informal around your blog readers? Do you maintain the same type of behavior on your blog, or do you usually switch between being formal and informal?
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Question: where do you see your blog in 1 year?



This should be a simple and fun question to think about if you run a blog. Where do you see your blog in 1 year?

Imagine doing the exact same things that you currently do on your blog for the next 12 months: what do you see different on your site in a year? Do you even see anything different on your site by then? This can be both what you actually see, and what you hope to see.

There are many different aspects of blogging that can measure the performance of a blog in a certain time frame. Following are 2 different types of things you can focus on, when imagining where your blog will be in a year: user participation, and blogger participation.
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Meme – The Goal Meme



Carolyn from Thoughts & Philosophies tagged me again for an interesting meme. This meme is called “The Goal Meme.” The meme simply allows a person to list their goals in life. If you wish, you can read my article that describes what memes are.
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