From the excellent Hark! A vagrant.
In the biblical book of Matthew, we’re asked: “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust/mote/speck in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the log/beam/plank in your own eye?”
The answer is obvious, isn’t it? It’s easier. It’s always easier to give expert advice on other people’s problems than to sort out one’s own life.
Does that make me a hypocrite?
Well, according to the bible – yes. But let’s quickly skip over that and on to the part where what you’re about to read is actually gentle benevolence from which you all will benefit. So buckle up. Here is YOUR list of new year’s resolutions…
1. Feed your brain – Subscribing to Brain Pickings – A library of cross-disciplinary interestingness and combinatorial creativity – where else will you learn about what is love or the sleep habits of great writers?
2. No limits just epiphanies – That’s a lyric from this song Best Day of My Life by American Authors.
3. Expand your musical tastes – Subscribe to the World Music blog.
4. Get more kooky clever funniness in your life from Hark! A Vagrant.
5. Or just a quick smile from I Know I Made You Smile. (And he’s got a book out too!)
6. Trying looking at things differently – with the help of Variations on Normal http://variationsonnormal.com/
7. Ask for me help – If you’re lucky you’ll get it from guys like these guys. I’ve been helping a small boy do something amazing and these guys helped a lot with the campaign…
Grannymar and Fionn from Autistic and Proud and Emma and her adventures of an unfit mother and Polo in Ireland
Maxie and Laurie and Barbara by the sea in the USA
Icewolves of Europa and Life in the Slow Lane and Swazi at Chocolate is not the Only Fruit in Great Britain.
8. Make more effort to appreciate those other people who help you, who you might have temporarily forgotten. (OK, that’s aimed mainly at myself. No list is ever complete without it’s omissions. Or in other ways, no list is ever complete. Hmm… that’s sounds resonantly philosophical.)
9. Never be daunted. Something good might happen. Especially if you wait till the end.
10. Try to avoid the mother of all hangovers descending upon you – starting with tomorrow. Or more properly, tonight.
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