I am going to go ahead and be a little cliche by making my first post of the new year about the new year. I have been searching for things that delight me in my everyday life but lately they have been lacking. But one thing that I have found encouraging is that I am starting a fresh year with new goals (achievable ones of course.) When I was a kid, we would find it endlessly entertaining at the start of a new year to say things like " I haven't showered ALL year!" or "I haven't seen you since LAST year!" And even though as an adult those things aren't quite as funny, it can be a nice way to help myself along with motivation. "Well, I haven't done this bad habit since last year, so if I keep up with it, it will soon seem like quite an accomplishment to say that!" Hopefully that makes sense.
But anyway, a few of my goals for the year are: start exercising more, (another cliche of the new year), find out what I want to be when I grow up, be more positive in my everyday life, and to gossip less. (See, now if I said STOP gossiping, that would be an UNachievable goal, I have to work myself up to it!:)
So for today I am going to delight in the hope that I will meet my goals in 2009 and hopefully tomorrow I can find some other more interesting little things to delight me.
