OLD (2025) NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS REVISITED

Below, please find what I wrote a year ago as New Year's resolutions and what I accomplished:

I have been scoffing at New Year's resolutions for years, but I have returned to the fold in 2025. I want to try old systems anew to see if there are any results. Little to lose trying to improve ourselves and become more efficient, right? So, I have prepared a few resolutions that, if implemented, will gratify my day-to-day living. Here they are, for you to see and me to perform:

1. Finish compiling A Phraseological Dictionary, English-Spanish. I have been working on it for 4 years, and 2025 should put an end to it. Actively seek a publisher. (I worked on this dictionary for several hours every single day, but did not finish it. As of today, the manuscript has 920,000 words and no publisher in sight.)

2. Write Literatura en Lengua Inglesa, II and III. (Wrote Literatura inglesa II and was published in November.)

3. Improve my phonetic abilities by reading aloud in English and Spanish daily. (I did, intermitently, but I did.) 

4. Daily penmanship or calligraphy as a meditation practice. (Not accomplished, to my shame.)

5.  Daily bicycle and strength training. (Proud to say I accomplished this!)

6. Take up German and French again. (Nope. I did not.)

Nothing to write home about, really, and not a list difficult to accomplish. I am giving myself the benefit of the doubt. Happy New Year. Happy 2025!