During that week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, I thought about New Year’s Resolutions like many other people did and I thought about writing a blog post on the subject.   While I think that there is some value to the exercise and I have certainly set resolutions for myself many times, writing about this topic seemed trite.  I thought about how I might be able to craft a post that was about setting goals for the new year with a different spin or a take that didn’t sound like 90% of the other posts like it.  But as the end of the first week of January approached and I had nothing innovative to say, I began to think that my window of opportunity for this type of a post was closing.  My mind didn’t stop marinating on the subject though and it morphed into something bigger.  So here goes… (more…)