HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! I hope you all had a Holiday Season filled with nothing but simple joy!
I am trying something new this year – I am not making New Year’s Resolutions. I give up on pretending I am going to follow through on them because then I just feel guilty and bad about myself that I couldn’t follow through. Ya feel me?
Instead, this year, I am setting GOALS for myself. These goals don’t have a deadline. I don’t have pressure to fulfill them before the stroke of midnight on December 31, 2012. WHEW! :)
This year is going to be all about life changes.
I am going to make changes in my life one word at a time and this year, I have selected these three words to focus on:
1. Purge
2. Connections
3. Strength
Purging is by definition “to free from impurities; purify”. I began this process in December and it is amazingly freeing. Not only did I get rid of one of the main stresses in my life, but it helped me to find motivation again. I have been on a non-stop mission to rid our house of any unnecessary items. Yesterday, my husband had a trunk full of items to donate to Goodwill. :)
Not only do I plan on purging material items, but I want to “purge” in so many aspects of my life – from negative aspects in my life to factors that inhibit me from focusing on photography and the business to this “baby weight” (Yes, I still call it that even though Cody is 5!!! heehee) to my personal habits/flaws/characteristics that prevent me from enjoying life as well as to excuses as to why I don’t do things that I should be doing (like my excuses for not exercising).
This is going to be the year that I make the conscious effort to reconnect. I want to spend more time with friends and family that I haven’t seen in awhile, pick up the phone to call friends instead of message them on Facebook or texting, spend more time reconnecting with myself with “me time”, spend more time scrapbooking, sewing and crafting instead of just “collecting”, and also connecting through networking again.
I get so caught up with Social Media and the convenience of texting, IMing and Google Chatting, that I forget what a refreshing feeling it is to talk to someone in person and really connect. A couple of weeks ago, I picked up the phone and called one of my best friends. We chatted for 2 hours (until our cell phone batteries started beeping at us!). I can’t remember the last time I did that. It was such a rejuvenating, refreshing feeling to talk to her.
My last focus is Strength. This is something I want to build from the inside out.
Earlier last year, I told my cousin that I wished that I “looked the way I felt”.
Before I had kids, I worked my butt off (literally) to get down to 100 lbs and a size 0. I had never felt healthier, fitter, more confident in my life. I owned my body, heart and mind.
I don’t so much want the 100 lbs and size 0 anymore.
I want the “owning it”.
I’m the person that can walk in a room and talk to anyone without being shy. But then when I see pictures from the day that someone took, I look at it and think “goodness gracious great balls of fire, I didn’t realize I looked THAT big that night! I should have stayed home!” (Don’t you hate it when Negative Nelly comes popping in your head?)
I am determined to work on looking the way I feel. By that I don’t mean looking in the mirror and thinking I look great. I mean I want to look in the mirror and accept me. Plain and simple.
This strength will propel me to build my business as well by being confident enough to succeed.
In the words of Britney Spears (that’s right folks, I’m quoting Britney Spears):
Stronger than yesterday
Now it’s nothing but my way
My loneliness ain’t killing me no more
I’m stronger
Now, if you got past my Britney Spears moment, what is your take on resolutions? Do you make them? Are you focusing on “words” too this year? If so, I would love to hear them!
Cheers to an amazing 2012 together my friends!!!
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