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Resolved and Determined

Have you ever made a New Year's resolution? Have you ever made a New Year's resolution that you kept?

It seems like every year a resolution is made with the greatest of intentions, but year after year they're broken. Whether through busy schedules or a determination that simply dissolves.

I've learned, after *cough*thirtyoneyears*cough*, the hard realization and have, in recent years, scaled back on the magnitude and difficulty of my yearly personal pledge.

This year, I'm doing something rather big and bold. My daily writing prompts will be my New Year's resolution. I'll take it a step further and add a personal promise as a clause.

This will be the year I finally put my work out there.

Bolded for your viewing pleasure, my dear faithful readers.

This year, I will put my work out there and see where it takes me. Let's hope to the Academy Awards where I win the Oscar for Best Original screenplay, yeah?

Okay, big dreams aside, baby steps with me...this is a big deal. I am resolved and determined. Let's do this!

A man's mind plans his way [as he journeys through life], But the LORD directs his steps and establishes them.
~ Proverbs 16:9

Though I have big plans, I'll be looking to the Lord and making sure that He's ultimately in control in 2016.

So, what New Year's resolutions have you made and kept?

Determined to Do,
Tiff

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