The other day I was in on the computer… I think writing something for this blog and I had the TV still on. For some reason, something on TV caught my interest. The channel was airing the “Positive Living Network” I had never seen this network before. Let me put it this way… I live in the middle of nowhere. We do not have cable anywhere even close and we didn’t want to pay $100 dollars a month for a satellite when we don’t watch TV much. When you have full time jobs and a farm, TV is way down on the list. Our lack of cable can be quite entertaining because we never know what we might get for a station that day. If the wind is blowing just right and the earth’s magnetic field is in alignment, we can get all kinds of channels. I was halfway listening to this new-found TV program and what they were saying started to intrigue me. The program was discussing success. The guy being interviewed in the program said there are two kinds of people in the world, people who tell you why and how they are successful and people who tell you why they are not. I let that soak in for a few moments and eventually my first resolution came to me. I think this year it may be the only one I make, because it will cover anything else I could have on my list.

This year, I have decided I will be a… “Do’er”. Yes, I know that is not a word. It is kind of a noun and a verb at the same time. I also know this isn’t professional journalism, so I’m going to try to squeeze by with it. Being a “Do’er,” means instead of coming up with reasons for not accomplishing something, I am going to try to do it. If I think I need to lose weight, do it. Go to some horse shows, do it. Create a website which I know very little about and write a blog to people who I’m not sure if they will love or hate what I have to say… doing it. See you have already helped me with my resolution already! My plan is to tackle 2010 and have no regrets that I wished I had done… so and so… or such and such. Yes it is a big resolution, but it is also not a checklist that I will probably lose within a week anyway.

So, I ask you what are your resolutions this year? What will make you feel like you have had a productive year or maybe enriched your life in someway? I invite you to be a “Do’er” like me. Maybe all of us together “doing” will actually accomplish something. Possibly I should let all of Congress to read this article, however, that is a conversation for another day and on another site! I hope 2010 is all you make it to be, whether it be in checklist form, mental form, or… hey, you can even leave it on this site so we can hold you to it. Go out and “Be all that you can be”…. oh wait that is the Army, “The Few the”….nope, Marines, Oh wait… here it is “Quit thinking about it and dreaming about it, and Do it!”