Saturday, January 06, 2007 2:28 PM
It is the first Saturday of the New Year and the health clubs of the world are bursting at their seams as we all start anew with our New Year Resolutions. And, as you might expect, the microcosm of the larger world that is the blawgosphere, is also abuzz with "resolution talk."
Arnie Herz at Legal Sanity starts things off with some interesting commentary, in resolution and change for legal sanity in the New Year:
New Year’s resolutions have a definite allure. But, they’re often so grand and sweeping that we fail to keep them and then feel really guilty about it.
Why should we limit ourselves to making resolutions one day a year?
After all, each day offers us an unspoiled opportunity to reflect on our personal pursuits and our work. If there’s something we want to change, we have at least 365 distinct chances to set our intention to do so. We also have at least 365 chances to take our intentions from the realm of possibility to reality.
Victoria Pynchon at Settle it Now Negotiation Blog, notes some New Year's Resolutions from Harvard Business School: "Because we apparently believe that our future selves will behave better than our present selves, we can "trick" ourselves into "doing the right thing" by agreeing today to take action tomorrow that we wouldn't take today."
A Georgia Lawyer wonders 2007: What's On Your List? and then shares his own.
Diana Skaggs at Divorce Law Journal notes her New Year's Resolutions and More Than Five Things You Don't Know About Me: "New Year’s goal setting has been a ritual for more than 30 years for me. First, I buy a lovely new hard bound journal. Then, I think. Then, I brainstorm with a very close friend or two. Next, I put pen to paper. The process consumes much of the month of January, but I look forward to it each year. Voila! My life is planned, to a point." I found Ms. Skaggs post to be interesting for a number of reasons, including the realities of you cannot always plan everything: "Yet as I reflect upon 2006, nowhere was the word “blog” anywhere in the book. Life just happened."
Prism Legal Consulting suggests in the post What Could Be, Not What Will Be: "New Year’s predictions, like resolutions, are easy to make but hard to keep. So instead, a look at what could be in legal technology."
Diane Levin at Online Guide to Mediation keeps it simple: New Year's resolution for mediators: start blogging in 2007: "Networking, marketing, information sharing, conversation, and collaboration: no other online tool delivers more for professionals than the blog."
And, finally, Corporate Blawg UK makes it owns resolutions while wishing everyone a Blogging Good New Year!
These posts are but a sampling of the "resolution talk" throughout the blawgosphere. So, if none of the links above pique your interest, try your own search of the blawgosphere (and try out Blawg's brand new search in the process!) by simply using the search box on the top and center of any page within Blawg.com.
2007 should be a great year. Best of luck to all as we get it started.