New Year’s Resolution: Be more like Paul Rudd
I love Paul Rudd.
(I promise this will get around to reading and writing. Eventually.)
I love him as Mike Hannigan/Crap Bag. I love him as Josh, the Clueless step-brother. I love him
as Ant Man. (That’s a lie. Ant Man is kind of dumb.) But most of all, I love him as the Forgetting
Sarah Marshall character Chuck aka Koonu.
There’s a scene in that movie that I am making my mantra for 2025. It’s my New Year’s
Resolution.
Do less.
“The less you do, the more you do. Do less. Try less.”
(If you don’t know this scene, I highly recommend searching “Forgetting Sarah Marshall surf
lesson” in YouTube. This blog will make a whole lot of more sense…)
My goal for 2025 is to do less. Try less. I know that sounds like the opposite of what a New
Year’s Resolution should be, but it’s what’s going to make me (I hope) a more successful writer.
2025 is already going to be full. It’s the year my book gets published! Woohoo! It’s the year I
finish the manuscript of book #2 and start querying to literary agents. It’s the year I host my
first book launch and then book event. And then I (hopefully) will have many more book events.
And because I don’t know how to stop, it will be the year I start writing book #3.
So yeah, I need to do less in other parts of my life. The writing part of my life is already pretty
busy.
Does that mean that I’m going to stop cleaning the house, going to my day job, feeding my child
three times a day? I wish, but no. It does mean I’m going to cut myself a little slack if I don’t
mop the kitchen floor as often as I did in 2024. It does mean I’m going to let it slide when my
child wants to eat chicken nuggets with mac and cheese instead of the nutritional three-course
meal I would have liked to prepare.
Basically, my New Year’s Resolution is to be nicer to myself, give myself a little more grace, say
no more often, focus on what’s most important (my family and my book – in no particular
order), and find a few more places in my life to do less.
