Well, the New Year has burst forth into our lives and left us wondering are we really closer to 2010 a Space Odyssey than we are to partying like it is 1999? Hard to believe it is 2007 already. But, with the dawning of a new year, we must not get a new calendar, learn to write a new date and admit that we are getting older, we must also make our New Year’s resolutions. I usually make some sort of resolution each year, but I try to keep them fairly reasonable. I am a realist when it comes to my own discipline and habitual failures at increasing said discipline. But, I do have a resolution for 2007. In 2007 I am kicking it up a notch.
What does that mean exactly? That is the best part, I am not sure. It is often said that if you don’t know what you are aiming for you can’t hit your target. The flip side of that idea, however, is that if you don’t know what you are aiming for, almost any hit can be the one! There are so many areas of my life I would like to grow in this year, so I am just going to try and hit them all. I am going to put forth more effort, renewed energy, a flurry of brainstorming activity, and even concentrated efforts of discipline towards each of them. In general though, I am just kicking it up a notch, I am reaching back and turning the knob up to 11, if you will. 
Too often in life we don’t kick our efforts up to the highest level. We leave 11 in reserve and fail to see what we can really do. This year, I simply want to let it hang out there and see what becomes of it. I don’t want to look back on ’07 and feel like I missed out on any opportunity to be with my family, do God’s work to the best of my ability, or discover who I am and who God has created me to be. So, I am kicking it up a notch. If you are searching for a resolution yourself, I leave you with these inspiring words……
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don’t know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
January 4, 2007 at 2:53 pm
I resolve to give up self-control
January 4, 2007 at 9:31 pm
When you say kicking it up a notch, I immediately though of some Trace Adkins song. So please don’t go around in tight jeans singing about someone’s “badonkadonk.”
That being said, kicking it up a notch in 2007 is not a bad idea. Mind if I steal that one from you? I’ve got a lot to look forward to this year. So the kicking up the notch approach, working on all areas of life, hoping to reach some unknown mark works well for me.
Then again, anything is better than tight jeans.
January 5, 2007 at 5:42 pm
ahh, the gospel according to spinal tap:
“This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, ‘What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn’t he have rested on that day too?’”
have a nice day
tuf