Someone wrote in [personal profile] rowyn 2006-01-21 08:26 pm (UTC)

Sticking to things that you control

In the realm of the nitpicky, here are a couple of options for keeping the resolutions more fully under your control:

3) Acceptances should count as more than one rejection. Wouldn't you feel silly missing this resolution because Prophecy and all 4 of your publishable short stories had been accepted on the first submission, and you didn't have time to get new material together for a 6th submission.

5) Spend less money on discretionary expenses (as opposed to saving more). The problem with phrasing the resolution in terms of saving is that it can be skewed by unemployment or other serious problems.

and one suggestion for making a resolution less of a nuisance:

7) Anti-spam software might help a lot here. I use Cloudmark's product, and while it only catches about 80% of the spam, it has a very low false positive rate. In fact, I've never seen an email which generated a false positive which wasn't sent by a corporation for a marketing purpose (even if I had consented to it previously), and there haven't been more than a dozen of those over the last 2 years. You could even run your anti-spam software on your existing inbox when you install it.

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