Hope you're enjoying your shiny new year. Tis the season for resolutions, so I'm starting with one that I'm sure is quite rare:

I will try my best to see how truly awkward I am at everything I hold dear. I will also look deep to understand how remarkably unimportant I am versus even the most mundane of common house-hold objects. Sincerely, a tiny speck of dust on a spin-y rock.

Whew! That was easy. Now this resolution isn't solely based on self-humiliation...it is a maxim created for the sole purpose of making me prove my self worth. A wonderful article in the Meditations on Meaning blog (found HERE) delves into the power of self-esteem on our daily actions. It turns out having high self-esteem can be detrimental to one's actions as these bloated individuals simply don't try as hard as those with low self-esteem who are forced to prove their value. Dan's blog article handles it with much more charm then I could so jump over and give him some meta love.