Good or Bad Start to 2008?

Did you have a good or bad start to 2008? Well, to be honest, I don’t care… I’m not just being downright rude, I actually have a point to make.

I had a great start to 2007, but it turned out to be an average year. I’ve had an average start to 2008, so does that mean the rest of the year will be great? I doubt it…

I don’t get why people try to predict how well their whole year will be based only on the first few days of it - it doesn’t make any sense. As pointed out on the Xbox Elite forums, the same can be said about New Year’s Resolutions - why plan things for a certain time just because it’s the start of a new year? What’s the difference between starting now and starting on 1st January?

Back to my original point, just because you have a bad/average/good few days at the start of the year doesn’t mean anything. The first 3 days of the year are the same as any other 3 days of the year - if you have a really great 3 days in June do you expect the next 362 to be good too? No. So why make the same assumption just because the 3 days in question happen to be the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of January? Who knows…

Personally, I plan to start working a bit harder on everything I do and stop being so lazy. I’m not going to call it a New Year’s Resolution because it’s not - I didn’t work as hard as I would’ve liked in my first term at uni (October-December) so I want to make sure I do work hard from now on; and it just so happens that my next term starts in January and coincides with the new year.

I’m not going to ask what all of your Resolutions were - what I’m going to ask is this… What are you planning on changing in your life in 2008 that could’ve been done in 2007 if you had the motivation?