So with the new year just around the corner, I've begun to brood on my resolutions. Last year, I did "mini-resolutions" where I made a new resolution each month in an effort to get more accomplished and stave off the doldrums that are early February and onward by changing it up too frequently to lose momentum. All went well until school kicked in (and kicked my butt) and so I got probably only eight or nine months of solid resolutions in.

The thing is, I didn't stick to them very well after the month was done. What's the point of a resolution that you accomplish and then abandon later? It's made me feel both as though I can accomplish just about anything I put my mind to and as though I'm just wanting to check things off of a list to prove to myself I could do it. Which is pretty worthless in the long run.

I still need to decide if I'm going to go back to the mini-resolutions format or try to just live my life and improve it as best I can. There are definitely things I want to accomplish in life (running again, photography, volunteering, etc) but not much is exactly feasible during vet school. So we'll see.