Well, its time for me to get on my soap box again about setting resolutions and improving your lives...Oh yeah. that didn't go over so well last year. I noticed that there were no comments after my rant about writing it down etc...Well, I am here to tell you that a year later... I didn't do so great!
I had ambitious goals for 2008 and looking back I didn't really accomplish what I wanted to in my heart. I am okay; I will try again this year but with realistic expectations. I have also revised a few to be more attainable without changing the objective.
One resolution that I did keep this year was go give up soda. For the entire year of 2008 I did not drink soda. The reason for this was b/c I had heard about people losing weight by kicking the carbonated drinks. I thought I would give it a try. Well, I didn't have any and I gained six pounds! My objective for the year was to lose some weight, (not solely by giving up the soda but partly) not to give up something that I rarely drink. So for this year I am keeping it going but for the mere fact that I know its not great for me. The weight losing will be accomplished through other means.
Some other goals I did really great with until school got out and then my schedule went kapput and though I thought about them dozens of times to re-start where I had left off it never happened. My OCD would kick in and I would tell myself that I couldn't start anew in the middle of the year and starting where I left off was too overwhelming. I had to catch up for the many days left behind. This applied to scripture study, exercising, and many more.
This year I am allowing myself to argue (in my head) that if I fall behind I can just start again wherever I want and still feel good about it. The important thing is to keep trying and improving myself.
I still believe in writing it down. But I think more than that is to have that writing visible. I had to dig out my paper from 2008 to remember what I had set out to do. Not this year. We will have self help stickies all over this house to encourage and remind.
15 years ago
1 comments:
Kaitlyn said..... Happy New Year to you mommy
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