Thursday, January 9, 2014

Things I'm working on in 2014

Today while Preston is napping I find myself in a rare position.  I have nothing that is pressing for me to do.  I don't have any magazine reading to catch up on.  I don't have any crucial chores to do around the house.  I just have time until Preston wakes up.  This is very new to me.  I really like it.

I don't make New Year resolutions because I'm bound to fail.  Instead I think about what I'd like to work on each year, or what I'd like to see happen and work on those things throughout the year.  Continuous progress, instead of completing something finite.

What I'll be working on this year for myself (in no particular order):

- become a little more financially stable
- quality time visiting with family and friends
- survive this craptastical winter
- spend as much time as possible enjoying the outdoors on warmer days until spring, summer, fall
- work on not being so bitter about circumstances beyond my control
- work on my amateur landscape photography with copyright and maybe even start my own LLC
- work on writing more often (poetry, music lyrics, short stories, chapters for a novel, etc...)
- read, read, read, read, read and research topics that I am fascinated by.  Intellectual stimulation is a must this year, or I might just crack and lose it
- work on selling Avon to help out my family financially
- work on losing those last few pounds to get to my goal weight that continue to elude me
- work on helping nourish the faith of our youth in our parish and the community
- be better at keeping in contact with friends all over the U.S. and the world (facebook helps, but a phone call, texting, skyping and visiting need to happen more too.)
- being a more emotionally healthy person, which will help in all of my relationships
- continuing in my faith, knowing that I can give over my concerns both good and bad to God in prayer and eventually I will receive an answer, though it might not be an answer I would even have thought of
- being a more patient person, not one of my strongest qualities
- take advantage of whatever alone time I can get, whether Jason takes Preston in the morning for a little bit, or while Preston is napping.
- take advantage of the time I get with Jason, because sometimes it's not much.  I am grateful for the time we do have together each day.
- take advantage of the time I have to get out and be around people.  Book club, our Friday weekly trip as a family to Great Falls, date afternoon/evenings with Jason, Evening Circle Bible study and MOPS with my friend Melissa are a Godsend.

I think that's a pretty long list of things I want to work on throughout the year.  I am doing to start working on the taking advantage of the time I have for myself right now and start reading the book for book club in February.

God bless you all in this new year!!!