Would have been caught dead before purchasing a “Hummer”…(the death vehicle for “Blackwater/ZE” …but the rest I’ve been doing…. Still have Checking at BAC…but took cash reserve and moved it to the local bank that Chris says is OK here in my state (according to this thingy with Arianna at Huff Post)……so it will take a bit to get my checking moved but they lost being able to use the rest I had in savings with them.

The rest on your list is stuff we are part of. Clay Soil where we live…so we do our own herbs on deck with some potted Tomato Plants…and support our local organic farmers who can grow what we can’t on our clay hillside. (we’ve tried raised beds and the rest…but just hasn’t worked) What’s funny is that when we lived in Connecticut we removed the rocks from our yard and had incredible gardens with beautiful Tomato, squash, beans and even collard greens! Here in NC we haven’t been able to grow a decent “Big Boy Tomato” or more than a couple of zuchinni or yellow squash without the cut worms getting us…and forget the rest.

Anyway…good goals. Not all of us can meat the 9 points but…it’s a good list to work for.

1: Scrap your Hummer.
2:Insulate your home and upgrade efficiency on your heating and cooling systems.
3:Investigate locally produced green energy.
4: Invest in locally produced green energy.
5: Excercise.
6: Try to grow some veggies.
7: Pay off debt.
8: Move your money from tbtf banks.
9: Vote.

All small steps but Change begins with you.

Barry says : Longer holding periods … at the conjugual level ?

more radio/less tv …
I strongly suggest internet radio, lot better than Sirius, for a small fee of $35/year with Live365, I have VIP access, excellent sound quality and more choice. You will found the station that has your musical preferences. In my case its AttentionSpanRadio (fusion/jazz rock…) and ZappaRadio mostly. [BR: I meant for appearances]

less media … not sure what you mean… what media? less blogging? [BR: same]

My resolutions : continue my path of reasonable personal finances, finish killing all my debts, save more funds for retirement, start a tax-free savings account (I’m canadian), more quality reading, more quality food, more quality friends, and stop seeing AVATAR, maybe 3 times is enough.

“..Postponing resolutions to change behavior to January of each year is indicative of poor self-management, herd behavior, and a low correlation to success. This postponement for what is intended to be positive change is simply an enabler of self-defeating behavior…”–Kent, TFP, above

No kidding!~ Whole Industry Verticals would disappear, if people would, only, hew to what is, already, known, though seldom practiced..note, for starters, the perennial ‘Weight-loss’ ads..

“Essentially, the one and only “resolution” needed is to seek self-knowledge…
…likely to be self-defeating unless the more difficult questions, such as “Who am I?” and “Where am I going?” are first asked and answered for oneself.”
…
“If all else fails, simply apply the virtue of moderation…”–Kent, ibid.

“for a tip, the most important part is your Accounting/Reporting/Monitoring of the goal.”–torrie-amos, above

Care to get a better Polaroid of where/what/who you are? Write down what you do for ~72 hours..

with that, most people will have, more than, enough info to begin charting a new course..

though, simply, we may do well to remember, as this, from Walter Malone’s poem “Oppurtunity”, puts forth..

They do me wrong who say I come no more
When once I knock and fail to find you in;
For every day I stand outside your door
And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win.

Wail not for precious chances passed away!
Weep not for golden ages on the wane!
Each night I burn the records of the day–
At sunrise every soul is born again!
http://www.poetry-archive.com/m/opportunity.html

True wisdom, in four words.

The best time too plant a tree is 25 years ago and today. Anias Ninh, (sp)