2018 is Nigh … Ready or Not!
Are you already preparing for 2018? Are you
doing so with focused strides, or simply ambling through December 2017 to its
fateful end?
There are benefits of both ways to a New Year
transition. This week, let’s explore those with goals, if not firm resolutions, for a meaningful end to 2017 and the New Year’s beginning. You
determined folks are … 
Never leave anything to chance? Do you thrive
on the details and envision your goals to their telic conclusion? Good
luck with that.
I’ve always tried to be detail-oriented and
prefer to know the telic outcome of my plans. Ah, but as Robert Burns once opined in
a poem,* “Best laid schemes of mice and men | Go often askew.” And I would add,
telic
women.
The Holidays are a telic person’s nightmare. They are fraught with interruptions,
changes, and just plain hiccups of chance. Perhaps those who amble through life
are more suited to Holidays. The rest of us should hibernate.
Word Challenge: TELIC. Do your best during
the Holidays to enjoy your moments of telic perfections, but be prepared
with a Plan B,** as you fit telic into your week of resolute writing.
Write first for
yourself … only then can you write for others. (L.Rochelle)
* Robert Burns’ 1785 poem, "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her
Nest With the Plough,” as interpreted in modern English.
**For young’uns, LONG before there was a Plan B “emergency contraceptive,” we enjoyed the term for describing an
alternate method of accomplishing something … rather counter-intuitive to the
pill’s meaning … you might want to re-think what you’re doing that would
require it. :-)
E-N-D
