Playing a bit of catch-up here, I had all the best intentions of starting the New Year off with a boom-bang post about resolutions and how they, well, suck. And why. And insights and stuff.
First, though, I should say that up till now we’ve always blogged here as a company, but this year I, that is, Jean (Rotem Gear founder, designer and CEA — Chief Executive Astigmatic), plan to pop in a bit more in a personal manner. That’s not a resolution, that’s just the way I feel it needs to go.
So. Resolutions. Here’s what I’ve got to say about them. Is there anything sillier? The way most people do it is to pressure themselves to do stuff they don’t like, based on beating themselves up for not doing that same stuff they don’t like in the past year. Wow, that sounds like a wonderful way to set oneself up for failure, because chances are 99.999999% that they won’t like it or feel any more inclined to do it this year.
My suggestion is to look forward, pick up where you’ve left off (see what a great rationalization I’ve now got for posting about new year on January 15?), and visualize rather than penalize, solve rather than resolve. The difference? One feels positive and the other feels negative. Action will always follow the positive impetus.
On that note, it seems only fitting that this lunar year is the Year of the Ox in Asia. A person born in the Year of the Ox “works hard, patiently, and methodically, with original intelligence and reflective thought” (Wikipedia.)
Every year for Chinese New Year (Jan. 26 this year), we launch a new design in a Chinese cut-out style, and this year is no exception. To remind us all of those great attributes so necessary in a year of challenge, we have a new line of Ox year gear in festive firecracker red and with the Chinese character for ox above his head — just the thing to get you going mooooving in the right direction.
