New Year's Resolutions

Will I be resolute in my resolutions, precise in my planning?

Will I set achievable goals, or will they morph overnight

into impossible hurdles?

Will I create a perfect picture to step into,

or a particular pickle I will have to be extracted from?

So many options and so few lifetimes to achieve them.

Only one in fact, so I better get serious and stop this dilly dallying,

and procrastinating performance,

and actually get on with something that really matters to me,

and maybe to someone else,

if it's ripple will go out at least a little way.

Not enough time to accomplish great things,

but maybe enough to act in some small way,

that will make a difference on the Earth.

Grand schemes have a way of stubbornly sticking to the paper 

they were written on.

Better a post it note worth of idea achieved,

than a compendium of unrealized dreams.

Life has a funny way of rushing onwards when you are not noticing,

and you find yourself looking back wondering what might have been,

if you had been willing to take one step.

One giant leap is not necessary,

a good idea that leads to something, however small, is enough.

Life cannot contain too many extraordinary feats by noteworthy individuals,

but it is plenty big enough

for you and for me.