Catching Up

In keeping with New Year's types of things, lets think today about being nice to ourselves. Maybe this is the opposite of the New Years resolution spirit, which attempts to be exacting upon you after a season of gluttony. But we here at the Empire would like then to be a voice of reason. Resolutions work best when you don't resent them.

Say you promised yourself to write a daily blog and punctually post updates on a daily basis. And sometimes you fall behind a few days. And sometimes you cheat and change the date stamp on the post. Well, you also post ahead sometimes because you know you'll be gone. The effect, a post every day, will eventually be the same. The impulse is the same. Products don't indeed have to be perfect, they have--at least in my mind--to be true.

So go a little light. Go a little easy. Don't let the rigour of your resolutions distract you from the purpose, the idea, the concept behind them. Do your thing. And do it like a human, full of foibles, flaws, missteps, miscalculations and all that stumbling jazz.