I know a lot of people don’t like to talk about New Year’s
Resolutions since after about 2 weeks the resolutions go by the waist-side and disappointment
takes their place.
I love new beginnings, so resolutions are all right by me. I
used to be the one who put everything in full gear for a couple weeks and then
returned to old habits because I either:
A)
wanted to do too many things at once
B)
wanted to have changes happen too quickly OR
C)
wanted to change for the wrong reasons
I made the biggest change of this habit 2 years ago when I
once and for all set the goal to lose weight and lost 40 pounds thanks to
Weight Watchers and my own nerve to set realistic goals.
This year, I spent a couple weeks thinking about resolutions
and goals, what I wanted to change and why, what would I need to accomplish
these goals, what support should I recruit.
I broke my resolutions up into daily changes, weekly
changes, monthly changes, seasonal changes and a yearly change.
Daily: Get back
on track after the holiday with eating well and working out daily. Ten-Day Update: No problem – holiday
weight is gone and I feel so much better.
Weekly: Learn
something new in crafting each week – a stitch, a technique, even a term.
Ten-Day Update:
The first week I learned how to do a cable stitch in knitting and this week I
had my first applique lesson.
Monthly: Read 3
books a month – one fiction, one nonfiction, and a classic. So far I picked out
for January The Book
Thief, Why
Christianity Must Change or Die and
The
Frontiersmen.
Ten-Day Update: I
started all of them and see this being a done deal by the 31st.
Seasonally: Now
that I actually live in a climate that has seasons this is a real treat –
Winter/Spring (Jan-Apr): Taking online courses in graphic
design and social media to build my resume and reputation.
Spring/Summer (May- Aug): Gardening and canning
Fall/Winter (Sept – Dec): Getting ready for the holiday;
making things, preparing the house, setting everything into gear for Christmas.
Ten-Day Update:
I’ve done my first 4 Photoshop Lessons, plus 2 lessons all about color and a
lesson on the differences in traditional marketing versus social media
marketing.
Yearly: Bible
Study. I’m not reading the Bible per se like a book since that is not how it
was put together. I am reading books and learning about why they were written,
when and under what circumstances, what were the influences, what should I be
learning from the piece, and how does it relate to 2014 and my life? January’s
lesson – The Gospel According to Mark – the oldest Gospel.
Ten-Day Update: Have
the background on when and under what circumstances Mark was written, plus a
few of the other influences of the time. Next, reading the text and analyzing
the story.
What have you put on
your list this year and how is it going?
