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New Year's Reset

The New Year is an artificial construct. There's nothing special about it other than the meaning that we assign to it . It's not really even that close to the winter solstice (which would make sense). As such, I see no particular reason to celebrate it. In my house, we toasted New Year's Eve with sparkling cider at 9:00 and then went to bed. As arbitrary as the date is, it does provide a useful moment to pause, reflect, and reset. That means it's time to update and brush off my daily goals tracker. I'll follow it for about a month and then give up (probably). Mr. Goertz's Goal Tracker Here's what I like about this: I print it out weekly. That makes it physical. To me that's important to owning goals. I always tell students who are struggling with deadlines to get a physical planner. These aren't really SMART goals. Due to the number of things on the list, attaching times and completion dates would not be a good idea. There's no penalty for non-co...