the corner office

2008 over, just like that, and we're into 2009. Happy New Year.

Everyone says 'I don't do New Year's Resolutions' and I'm one of those people. But secretly everyone does have resolutions - it just takes off some of the pressure so that if you resolve to say, floss more often, and then don't manage it, you'll feel less guilty and ashamed when you look at the floss dispenser at the end of Jan 2009 and see the layer of dust that's covering it.

I, however, also like to give myself a different kind of wiggle room. My resolution each year (over and above the flossing), is to Be Happy. I think it's a perfectly noble resolution to have, is wonderfully open to interpretation, long after the fact, and it's not a particularly hard one to live up to, as long as you keep reminding yourself about it occasionally.