People constantly make promises to themselves that are rarely if ever kept. A huge offender of this is the dreaded New Years Resolution. I’m curious as to why people feel the need to wait and entire 365 days and sometimes 366 just to lie to themselves. I’m not trying to preach to anyone because I know also practice this activity. There’s been many promises made in my day and a lot of them I didn’t keep ranging from what not to eat or drink, who to hang out with, or how to spend my time. But at the time of making these promises I earnestly felt that I’d keep them, I’m curios if there is a way to ensure that the same conviction that made the promise can be carried through day to day life in order to ensure its completion. Say for instance something as going to the gym, its easy to buy the membership, easy to decide you’re going to go, its even easy to go buy a large amount of gym gear. But when it comes to actually getting off your behind and going that’s a whole other ball game. Putting down the videogames, hanging up the phone, telling your friends bye, that is tough. Even knowing that your goal has obvious and tangible advantages doesn’t even help. In light of the recent financial turmoil a significant amount of people are thinking towards education to ensure that they are kept away from the chopping block. But for some reason I don’t think that’s going to be the secret recipe for most people. Well maybe if I can ’stay the course’ with my new commitments anyone can.
Just got in the door and started my usual browsing habits when I came across this ridiculous article on Gizmodo about black Friday. Basically you can get the $6k Sony Vaio TT for around $1k during a Webcast lasting from noon to midnight on black Friday. This got me thinking about how I was going to accomplish my shopping this year. Several of my female friends basically ran amok the last two weeks trying to cash in on the pre-black Friday sales all over the place and are now done with their shopping. Unfortunately for me I’m not even sure what anyone in my family wants, I’m leaning heavily towards gift cards but that feels slightly like a cop out. Most likely on December 20th you’re going to see me in stores stepping over piles of discarded merchandise and screaming children to grab a hold of what feeble gift ideas I can come up with. There needs to be a service where you can pick a total budget or budget per person and just let the website figure out what to buy the people based on some simple survey style questions. To take it a step further you should be able to order these items from said site and have them shipped. Hopefully in 2009 we’ll have Christmas shopping truly at the click of a button.