Happy New Year everyone!! With the new year comes new resolutions, and for someone who doesn't like to make or keep resolutions, I've decided instead to commit to some new 2012 goals.
Goal #1: Count Your Blessings
Starting now, I hope to wake up feeling refreshed and fall soundly asleep knowing how blessed I am. What's not to be thankful for? I have an amazing fiance, I have two wonderful families who love me (Rob's and mine), I have my health, the health of my families, I have friends, I have a wonderful home, a fantastic job, and all the materialistic items in between (a great car, plenty of clothes, and the list is never ending). I guess my point is I'm not left wanting of anything. I'm completely content with my life, and I need to be thanking my lucky stars (and God!) on a daily basis for how blessed my life has been. All the following goals go hand in hand with realization of being a blessed individual.
Goal #2: Leave the Stress Behind
Last year had it's ups and downs, but from here on out the drama stays in 2011. I have enough going on in my life (HELLO! Planning a wedding in less than 9 1/2 months. AHH!) that I don't need any additional bumps in the road. December was pretty chaotic in all aspects for me, and I've decided I'm done with the worrying, I'm done with the stress, and I'm done with anyone that wants to cause it. See ya, Bah-bye! This goal goes hand in hand with Goal #1. Leave the stress behind because in the end does it even really matter?
Goal #3: Push Yourself to New Heights
So far, I've been able to complete any goal I've set and this makes me very proud of all I've accomplished thus far:
*Educational goals? A bachelors degree, CHECK!
*Financial goals? To be debt free (minus the car), CHECK!
*Career goals? Certified at an awesome job, CHECK!
*Relationship goals? I got Rob ;), DOUBLE CHECK!
I guess my point again refers to Goal #1. Look at all I have to be thankful for! Life is Good! For 2012 I'm striving to push myself to new heights, and I want to make an athletic goal to run a 5K. Nothing huge or impossible, but a goal still the same. Enough of this redundant 'jalking' (that's code for intervals of jogging/walking), time to get serious and run some distance. I may even blog about my experiences, and how big boobs, asthma, and just being plain out of shape are holding me back.
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| This is what I look like in my dreams :) |
Goal #4: Continually Challenge your Brain
This goal is an easy one for someone who likes to read, but I like to read fiction. Like, as Rob calls them, Vampire Smut books. HAHA! I can't help it they're so entertaining, and I don't ever plan to give up reading my Kresley Cole books. It's bubble gum for the brain!But, I plan to do a lot more non-fiction reading, you know, books that matter (like New York Times bestsellers) that will keep my brain awake and focused on important subjects or literature. I usually only read two "serious" books a year, because they take so much out of me. Last year, I read Jodi Piccolt's House Rules and My Sister's Keeper, and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. Anyone who has read this books would agree the topics are so serious, so depressing, and so agonizing you would want to spread them apart as much as possible. Late last year, I joined the Zeta Book Worm club and have already started reading Kathryn Stockett's The Help and Marilyn Monroe's Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters. Next, I'll read Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games, which I'm really excited about. So, goal #4 is to wake your brain up, try something new...something that matters, even if it's small like reading material.
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| The gorgeous and intelligent, Marilyn |
Goal #5: Be a Better Person
This is a no-brainer. What goes around comes around. Treat others how you wish to be treated. I continually strive to be a better person, always dynamic and everchanging. This is a goal that can never be fully reached or completed, but that's ok. To always be in a process of being a better person means you will always be the best you can be at the time.
So what are your 2012 resolutions or goals? Feel free to share!
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