New Years Resolutions

Before I start this post I want to say that if I ever write a book or win an emmy, oscar, golden globe, pulitzer, etc. I will dedicate it to my mom and my aunt debbie who are my biggest supporters! They always read my blogs no matter how long and boring they might be AND they always comment! It means so much to me!!! I'm not very close to achieving any of those things, but in the meantime, thanks so much for the support!

SO new years resolutions...it's january 12th so I thought it was time I posted about my goals for the new year. I have so many!

First of all, do you ever feel like if you could just do this or that better or accomplish one thing or another you would be a better version of yourself? I always feel like that. If I could just get BLANK going for me....The blank is a multitude of many things I want to work on.

Second of all, there are all these things that when I was younger I would vow to do/ work on when I was older. I'll use the example of church because it is the easiest to explain. When ben and I lived in orlando we loved the church we attended but we never got involved and we never went to class. I made excuses about that as in "oh we aren't going to live here long enough, when we get settled in a place we will set down roots and get involved". I made excuses when aiden was young because I didn't want to put him in the nursery (and I didn't until he was around 1...what was I thinking?!?! nurseries are awesome!!) So now we have bought a house, we have placed membership at a congregation we really like, aiden has a blast in the nursery, and I still struggle with WANTING to get involved. So that was just one example of something I make excuses for or put off till a later date....

I could make that correlation with a lot of things...I am going to do better at cleaning and getting organized when I have my own house, hmmmm. I am going to work on my blog book more intensely when aiden starts nursery school, hmmmm. I am going to work out more often after the new year, hmmmm. You see where I'm going with this.

SO in an effort to make 2010 the year that I ACTUALLY work on the things I say I'm going to work on. I have made a list of my "resolutions, goals, to do's" whatever you want to call them and I am going to put them on this blog for all to see in the hopes that it will keep me motivated and on top of my list! I have 10! Yes 10 goals for 2010 and this time I have made them very very specific. I think resolutions that are lofty and vague lead to vague results...

For example I am giving myself deadlines, quotas, SPECIFIC tasks for which there is no gray area. Either it happened or it didn't. Period.

Also in an attempt to work on these things in the new YEAR and not just in january, I am going to write about a different resolution and what I am specifically doing to achieve that goal every week. One a week. So in 10 weeks everyone will know what all 10 of my resolutions are AND how I'm doing at achieving them. Also it ensures that in 10 weeks (when much of the world have already forgotten about their resolutions) I will still be working on my goals! I love this plan because it's kind of like my own personal accountability partner, my blog. Things are in writing, published on the internet, and at some point will even be in a book so if that's not motivation enough to achieve my goals, nothing ever will be!

So stay tuned for my (hopefully!) transformation into the better version of myself!