It's the first day of 2023; have you made your resolutions yet?
By Carolyn Yeager
I'VE JUST COMPLETED MINE. I got sidetracked from my original intention, and had to change what I had in mind for that reason. Now I'm in more traditional territory - my #1 resolution is to stop procrastinating, or to make great improvements in reducing it. Already today I heard myself saying, "Not today ... tomorow will be a better day to do it." I realized I say that EVERY DAY several times and it always feels convincing. However, the best time to do everything is now, when I think of it. I don't have to make a big production of it. Just do it. But everything has become a 'big production' for me. This I want to stop.



Walendy was born in Berlin on 21 January 1927. He died November 17 in the same city at the ripe age of 95. His best-known book is the classic 