I've always been a list-person. And a resolutions person. I usually spend at least a week in December thinking about my new year's resolutions so I can write them down on January 1st. But, it's now four days into the year, and I haven't written a thing down.
This year I decided that I was going to make only one resolution, and instead make a list of goals. My resolution? To do better. Do better in my career. Do better with my novel writing. Do better in my relationships. Do better with organizing my schedule. Just do better.
As for my goals, it's quite a list ... some small, and some big. But, I'm excited because if there's anything 2012 taught me is that I can change my life. Get out of my comfort zone. Face my fears. Open my heart. And the result is a changed me. A changed life.
I read this while surfing the Internet and thought it's worth sharing here:
"Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.
"Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.
"What would you like to have happen in your life this year? What would you like to do, to accomplish? What good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character defects, would you like to have removed?
"What would you like to attain? Little things and big things? Where would you like to go? What would you like to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have happen in your family life?
"What problems would you like to see solved? What decisions would you like to make? What would you like to happen in your career?
"Write it down. Take a piece of paper, a few hours of your time, and write it all down - as an affirmation of you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go.
"The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals."
-- Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series
