New Year’s Resolutions - Gone with the Wind?
January 25, 2010 Office Insight
“With God as my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!”
You know the scene we’re talking about. Gone with the Wind – the end of act one: Scarlett O’Hara, all dirty from the Civil War, her house in shambles, holding some kind of radish thing and yelling out to no one in particular. You know you watched it in 6th grade. All four hours of it. That was resolve. Both you and her. She wasn’t going to go hungry if she had to marry three different dudes for their money (even Rhett Butler ! ::gasp::), and you weren’t going to watch another movie longer than 2:30 for the rest of your life.
That resolve probably wasn’t for New Year’s back then, but man, it was strong. Got us thinking- since when did resolutions get so wussy and predictable? Not only that, but even if they’re just a schmidge too hard, game over by February.
That’s not our style this year. We’re posting our top three 2010 resolutions online so that we’re stuck with them. Saved forever in the pipes of the internet. Bring on the 10’s!
Resolution 1 – We’re going to own our inbox
Email isn’t going to control our lives any more. You know that feeling when a new message pops up? That little red starry thing on Mac Mail? We hate that feeling – it totally screws up our flow! So we aren’t going to do it anymore. The once-a-minute check’s going to get replaced by a strict every thirty minutes only policy. We’re also going to keep things more organized – which starts by making a new folder called 2009, and moving everything old into it. Still searchable, still there, but out of mind and one step closer to that elusive inbox victory.
Resolution 2 – Time to network
Gah! We really don’t like “networking,” at least in the traditional sense of the word. Always makes us think about stuffy people in ties talking about how many people they’re in charge of, or wanting to sell us something (um, another drink this way please.). This year, we’re going to change all that; networking 2.0. If a kid from college wants to meet up and learn about the business, we’ll try to make it happen. If we meet someone interesting on Twitter, we’ll chat them up. If you want to hear about the wonders of the right-hand knob on a Think chair, let’s get coffee.
And our parents told us to be afraid of strangers!
Resolution 3 – We’re getting out of here at 5pm
I don’t think any of us have seen a full episode of Around the Horn since we were in college. That’s a travesty. Come to mention it, nary is a day when we’ve got to worry about parking on the wrong side of the street in the city (which ends at 6pm). We’ve got a problem. Time to start going home on time. Barring the occasional client meeting prep, it should be pretty feasible, too. Usually people don’t get anything done after 5 pm anyway. There’s even science to back it up.
We’re all in this together: why not post your 2010 resolutions in the comments to keep you in check, too? Don’t get too personal on us, though, because if never going hungry’s your one resolution for the year, well frankly, you’re on your own with that one.
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San Diego Office Furniture - January 31, 2010
This is the year that I’m going to get my home office decorated. I definitly need some of those inspirational posters and a goal board.
I’m also trying to go the whole year without buying a calendar (I get a little obsessed with time micro-management). I’ve got access to a calendar on my computer if I need it. I don’t want another giant calendar staring at me from the wall. I’m almost all the way through January - only 11 more months to go!
Daisy McCarty
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