I don’t know about you but I lost track of my 2020 resolutions, personal and professional, in the midst of all things COVID. Now I need to get back in the habit of reviewing my 2021 resolutions more regularly to help me improve in keeping them!

One of my dual purpose resolutions was to write more – personal letters (yes handwritten, envelope with a stamp) and more professional publishing. The easy (or so I thought) way to publish more was to publish something to this blog once per month and here I am publishing the first of 2021 in March. The write more letters portion was always going to be harder. Like many I’ve gotten out of the habit by relying on texts, emails and family group WhatsApp entries. The most consistent letter writing I’ve done in the last few years has been to a young gentleman I coached in Knothole baseball who found himself on the business end of a wrongful conviction and is currently at Madison Correctional in London, Ohio. Visitation has been closed since March 2020 and calls are monitored and limited to 15 minutes so writing a letter is my chance to draw him into some real thought provoking discussion. Despite knowing that, I mailed my first letter of 2021 last week!

Now is always the right time to recommit to good habits. I’m recommitting to my New Years Resolutions. I hope your New Year’s Resolutions are still intact but if necessary I’m encouraging you to recommit to yours.