Keeping your resolutions? I'm keeping mine so far.

I resolve to be better to myself. Go to the dentist. Work out more. Stop eating fast food. I will try to remember that I am the center of my own Universe and all good deeds I do for myself ripple outward and make me of better service to others.

After careful reflection about the past year, I noticed that I became increasingly more hostile to myself. I judged myself more harshly and belittled myself and my ideas. Not a very productive way of thinking. I sabotaged my own success and therefore sabotaged the successes I hope to share with others.

We so often forget ourselves in the equation. We forget that to Do Unto Others As We Would Have Them Do Unto Us requires knowing HOW we would have them do unto us. We forget to imagine HOW we would like to feel; HOW we would like to be; HOW we would like to live. If you can seek that, if you can actively search for Yourself in each choice you make, you cannot avoid doing not only what's best for you, but what's best for others as well.

Gnothi Seauton. Know Thyself.