My latest column is up at Project Simplify…

The Not-So-Simple Life: An Accountability Festival!

Last year as I wrote this column, I became increasingly aware that I was repeating many of my old patterns. When I revealed my age-old list of value resolutions and re-graded myself on it, one cluster of resolutions stood out as the most unresolved. That would be the grouping centered around time management and productivity. Their leader being “I will spend more time taking courses of action, and less time talking about them.”

That one really spoke to the heart of how I had been “doing” things for the past long while. Lots of talk, little action. More bluster than muster. Too much plan-do, not enough can-do. Lots of yakkin’, not much mackin’. I could go on, but…

Oh alright, a few more. Too much jawing, not enough clawing; a whole lotta “gonna”, but not a lotta “done-a”; lots of “trying” but not much applying; and let’s see…I want to end strong…too much wishin’, not enough fission! No wait—too much hoping, not enough coping. Oh, and too much dreaming, not enough…um…scheming? Seaming? I probably should have stopped at “fission”.

Where was I? Oh yeah: doing too much blabberating, and not enough elaborating. We were talking about my accountability festival.

Because 2011 is the year for getting things done, right? We’re all pumped, right? I sure hope we are, because I have us on record committing to a lot stuff already.

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Read the rest at Project Simplify.