New Year, New Cliché

It's hard to write on New Year's Day without resorting to some cliche about new beginnings or new resolutions. After all, every year we get older we hear the same things over and over again, so yeah, since I started paying attention at about age 5 (my parents would bring home party hats and noise makers that they'd pass over to us kids) that would be 57 years of the same old platitudes.

Nonetheless that "new start" vibes are hard to shake after all that time. The higher the expectations you place on 'starting over,' the further you fall when you don't meet those expectations. Which is why I'm aiming for a lot of little 1% changes this year. Day by day, month by month.

I had to do some bigger 10% changes yesterday, getting all the cats on AdoptAPet.com after giving up on Petfinder when it kept giving error notices everytime I tried to add a photo. Of course, as soon as all of my cats were added, Petfinder started working again. But, too late. I'm too tired to re-add them all to Petfinder this week. And I've already gotten some inquiries via AdoptAPet. Now my 1% will be improving their bios a bit each day, and maybe adding one each day or so to PF. We'll see.

Today's 1% is writing this blog post. Any blog post. A blog post a day will help keep the lonelies away, once I've gained a little traction again, and follow up by reading my friends' blog posts, too. There are still a few old-time bloggers out there, doing it to stay in touch, rather than to sell, sell, sell.

Here's to incremental changes in 2025!