Name: あなたのテーマ (Your Theme)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:19:27.000Z
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Did you set a New Year’s Resolution for yourself?

I don't know when in the year you're watching,

but if I had to bet on the status of your resolution,

it's probably not flourishing, but failed or foregone.

This is usually what the effort curve on resolutions looks like.

If New Year’s is new to you, you’re forgiven for not knowing.

But come on, this isn't your first Resolution Rodeo.

You've been here before: saddled up to a resolution.

Only to come back next year to pick a buck of a different color.

Year after year after year of your unchanging life

And the Resolution Rodeo.  This is not the way.

Instead, to accomplish what you want out of resolutions,

positive life change (but in a better way),

Instead of setting yourself up to fail with,

“I'm going to lose x pounds by next year,”

or "I'm going to read one book a week, at least”

a theme would be something like 'Year of Reading'

Now if that sounds a bit broad, that's the point.

And when trying to build yourself into a better version of yourself,

If the trend is going in the right direction, so are you.

Just moving a trend from negative to positive is hard enough

without defining falling short of a goal as failure.

Heck, even just decelerating the negative is a positive.

Is there something you want more of in your life?

Well, if it's the ‘Year of Reading,’ why not open the book,

That's it: you were at a branch and went one way instead of the other.

Having a theme is like creating a friendly bot to follow you on the path,

to help notice branches and consider choices with you,

reminding you to be a little different in little moments sometimes.

An example: one year my theme was 'Novelty.'

I felt like things had become too same-y.

Rather than resolve: “I'm going to do n new things per t time”

So, when it made sense, why not try the new instead of the known?

Now, I didn't go crazy, but that time was more novel than normal.

Because just having a theme-bot along will point out paths

In picking a theme, go with something that has a nice broad name

for the general direction you want to navigate your life.

The diverging paths of life are hidden under the fog of the future.

You can't plan the route and then fail to follow it,

because there is no map and unseen obstacles await.

before realizing there's a more foundational problem.

You haven't failed, it's still 'Year of Health.’

The broadness of a theme allows its meaning to change.

You started out wanting to read more books,

you realized academic papers are where it's at,

or that reading reading just doesn’t work for you

The theme can change because so will you.

Having a theme, you will notice paths you didn't before.

This gets you to think about your thinking.

And thinking about your thinking changes your thinking,

So a broad theme allows its meaning to adapt with you,

without the guilt of having failed to meet the goals

of a Past You who doesn't exist any more.

was different from the start, and that’s fine.

So themes should be broad, directional, but most importantly: resonant.

if you have a glass, and tuning forks of different sizes,

bringing the right-sized humming tuning fork

near the glass makes it hum the same note.

When picking a theme, you're looking for a word or

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phenomenon

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positive