I love New Year's Day. Besides the fact that I'm off work, C is off work, and my mom is in town, I just love the newness that is January 1. While this past year flew by and I can hardly believe it is 2016, I love everything that this day stands for. It is a chance to start over. A chance to begin again or refresh what worked from previous years. It is a chance to grow.
I'm asked every year by my best friend what my new years resolutions are. And every year, I have pretty much the same response: "I don't know. Probably to get in better shape and eat better."
And every year, I roller coaster on that resolution. I do really well at times, and really terribly other times. This year, I responded to the question my best friend asked with: "I don't know. I'm still thinking about it."
But I think I have decided on my New Year's Resolution 2016 edition. And it isn't to "get in better shape" or "eat better."
My resolution this year is to take more time for me and really focus on making each day more important, more useful, and more fulfilling. I realize this is extremely vague and could mean something different to every person reading this (or, ya know, it might if people were actually reading this). But that's on purpose. I know goals are supposed to be SMART - specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely; heck, I teach a lesson every year on goal setting. But I want my goal to be vague. Because it means I can frame it any way I want on any given day.
Okay, so how am I planning to accomplish this intentionally vague goal to "take more time for me and make each day more fulfilling"?
- I plan to work to implement and utilize a 'bullet journal' system instead of focusing on a planner or 18 different sets of lists.
- I would like to read a daily devotional journal each day - I have one with short, cute, inspiring messages for each day. It's 3 minutes out of my day. I can do this for myself.
- I want focus on counting my blessings. Often after being stressed out at work and coming home to cook dinner and clean up the house, I get so caught up in the negative and the frustration. I'd like to try to find something positive in each day and record that in my bullet journal.
- I want to take more time to meal plan - C and I have a bad habit of eating out more often than we should because I haven't been great about planning ahead.
- I really want to exercise for 30 minutes a day, excluding work. That can mean taking my dog for a walk, dancing, doing a workout video, heck, doing ankle raises while fixing my hair... I know I can do better at this.
- Going to bed earlier. I feel so much better when I get enough sleep, but I stay up too late reading or just playing on my phone, and I lose precious sleep. Social media is wayyyy too present in my life.
Okay, so now it's out there. I'll hopefully keep checking in and holding myself accountable in this blog.
I hope each and every one of you have thought of something you want to do better in 2016. Whatever it is, whether it is SMART or vague... Find a way to better yourself.
And remember, never miss an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
Live from Okieland,
E
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