new year. new beginning. time to reflect. time to rebuild. time to start something new. time to rejuvenate something old. rebuild the fire inside. restock the things that make you tick. give a little. receive what's given. listen....to yourself. to your loves. to your world.
we all have things we want to change and fix and restore and renew. we have things we want to tackle. to try. to test. we have goals we know we can accomplish. and resolutions we wonder if we can make reality. and dreams we're afraid to say out loud.
i had a long list of things that fit into these little pockets of categories last year. along with a new baby. some of them were accomplished. some of them made me smile just to dream them as a part of my reality someday. that's the thing though, some things are meant for you right now and some things are meant for you someday. in 2009 i learned a great deal about what my right now is all about and i also learned what just doesn't fit into my right now. i'm learning about being more realistic while committing myself to keep dreaming big plots of adventure into my someday. sometimes the adventures get squeeze into the midst of where i'm at and sometimes they get filed away for my someday. and in all that learning of 2009 one of the biggest things i've learned is to be ok with that. perhaps even excited about that. excited about my right now and ecstatic about our someday.
2010 is full of more newness and lots of change and major adjusting. so in making my 2010 resolutions and goals and dreaming my year into consciousness, i've tried to keep it real. make change where i can, the kind i can really accomplish. the kind that is important to my here and now. make lists of things to fit into my someday. and enjoy the ride along the way. each day, just be there, do it, embrace it, live it and be in my moments. i am unbelievably blessed in my right now, so here are my goals for my 2010~
1. use no plastic or paper shopping bags. period. cloth bags, purses, diaper bags, my 2 hands, the wagon...
2. use only grown-up, grandmother approved language and while i'm at it, enhance my descriptive vocabulary to express myself more eloquently.
3. make conscious consumer choices while tracking and altering our expenses to fit our reality and protect the prospect of making our dreams a reality.
4. use my time more wisely and keep my daily expectations realistic - by having a list of a few things to accomplish each day - of how i'm using my "down time" of the day, i can remain in the moment during the most important part of my day. the other part of this is a requirement for a little me time carved into my day somewhere - conscious, delicious, devoted to myself time to enjoy, somewhere in there. taking a shower does not count!
5. smile and say hello more often.
6. go paperless on all bills and pay all my bills through my bank or online and spend no money on billing stamps. but continue to happily use stamps for correspondence to my besties around the world.
i'd love to hear what your plans, goals and intended realities are for 2010! do share-
2 comments:
I love your resolutions. I found the etsy website. I am interested in the produce bags one of the ladies has posted on there. Maybe i'll get those and keep my reusable shopping bags for one of my month resolutions. For those that I have not explained, I do not like to do New Years resolutions. Instead this year, I am trying monthly concentrations that I will maintain the entire year. Month 1 resolution concentration...no soda and only two doctored up coffees a week! so far so good. I think Month 2 concentration is going to be to write a handwritten letter a week. Even if I have to write it to Greg or Tommy.
definitely would LOVE to get a hand written letter from you. spread the love! and i like your plan for monthly concentrations...you can slowly change your lifestyle a month at a time instead of a wham-bam all at once approach where things easily get forgotten and left out. you rock, momma.
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