Happy 2011, all. It's that time of year again. That time when people are attempting to conjure up whatever momentum they lost around mid-March last year and focus it on starting anew. The ball drops, the booze and the cookies run out, and people tell themselves that they're going to lose those pounds, quit that habit, take up that hobby or make themselves over in this way or that.
While I'm all for self-transformation, I think that it's more lasting and successful when approached as a consistent effort, completely separate from the calendar. I think that the word "resolution" has become a synonym for the word "failure". So in order to avoid the epic fail, I want to suggest a new word. One without the excess baggage of cliche or the burden of defeat. That word is intention. Say it with me now.... inteentioonnn...
