Change: Good Start for 2010

Have your New Year's resolutions disappeared? What did you say you were going to do differently but for some reason, you didn't follow through with the "change" necessary to the resolution?

We experience change almost on a daily basis. Most of which we have little or no choice but to accept.

Change we choose to make for ourselves is good, yet we rarely stick with it long enough to succeed.

This year I decided I would do it differently. I didn't make a New Year's Resolution. I made a conscious decision to change from my old fashioned hard copy planner to the calendar on my IPhone and computer.

I know from past experiences that it takes the "proverbial" twenty-one days to make or break a habit so I know I've succeeded in making this change because we are now twenty-seven days into twenty-ten.

This change wasn't easy. At first I kept my planner on my desk, then I moved it to a chair not too far from my desk. Now it is across the room somewhere, yet still in my office. Truthfully, I don't miss carrying it around. It was heavy. My phone actually has more information at my fingertips, an obvious improvement.

I use Notes App for my to-do lists, email them to my computer and I can print them if I choose to.

Change can be good. I like this change. And you know, it really wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.