“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.” ~Ellen Goodman
A new year! A new DECADE!!!!
Like a brand new notebook, time stretches on before us, full of possibility, just waiting to receive whatever wonders we will allow….
Like everyone else, I have a list of New Year’s resolutions aimed mainly at whittling away the holiday poundage and working on my overall health… gym time, vitamins, diet, a temporary suspension of all caffeine, wheat, and sugar…
But in addition to these “usual suspects”, I found myself writing a whole new set of resolutions… hopefully the beginning of a new way of being?
I thought I’d share… and I’d love to hear what lifestyle changes you’re choosing for 2010 and beyond….
1. Put my self care at the top of my own priority list
I had to write the whole list out four times before this actually ended up in the #1 spot… oy!
The rest, in no particular order:
2. Laugh more & worry less
3. Trust more & analyze less
4. Risk more
5. Practice LOVE at every opportunity
6. Be gentle with myself and others
7. Follow my own bliss – actively participate in the things that make me happy… or may make me happy ☺
8. Experiment more – and be as happy to find out what I’m not as what I am
9. Set better boundaries & be more clear about what I want
10. Focus on the MIRACULOUS
11. Say YES to adventure & NO to anything that makes me feel drained and unbalanced
12. Be TODAY
13. Breathe more
14. Enjoy more candles, flowers, dancing, and MYSTERY
15. Expect WONDER & ABUNDANCE
16. Sprinkle JOY everywhere possible!
I know that some of these will be harder to keep than others, and there will be times when I’ll need to cut myself some slack… a little Perfection of Effort reminder will no doubt need to be applied to “sprinkle joy everywhere”… there are definitely going to be cranky days when I’ll be lucky if I can sprinkle anything…
But, I like the possibilities that open up when I think of living with these resolutions….
Potential… yeah…
“ ‘Where there is a will there is a way,’ is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so, to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.” ~ Samuel Smiles
Simply remarkable. Thank you for sharing aspects of your journey with us Tara.
As always, the most balanced, lucid blog in the sphere. Thanks, and more on perfection of effort might be nice, if the spirit moves you.