As we close out 2018, I'm both nervous and excited about what 2019 will hold. I know there will be some Personal challenges ahead, but I'm also hoping to come out the other side of some difficult things I've been going through.
I always set some intentions for the new year. Personal goals and commitments. I'm not fond of the word "resolution". It conjures too much "reform" for me and I don't feel that way about my life. But I do embrace change and growth each year and try to make those things happen with intention.
Most of these won't begin right away. Indeed, January always feels like the worst month to do anything different. But hopefully throughout the course of 2019 I can make these lovely things happen.
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- Get through the health stuff I need to get through
- Continue training Beau
- Get more acupuncture, massage and self-care (use those benefits)
- Set new professional goals
- Figure out work wardrobe (I’ve been in a rut)
- When I can, start running again
- Be a better listener
- Drink less alcohol (it increasingly bores me to get drunk)
- Visit Ireland
- Visit Lake Louise
- Travel somewhere new
- Continue making my home a home I love
- Keep more to myself (I can be too much of an open book)
- Make purchases with great purpose
- Save more money
- Find new positive ways of understanding self, life, choices; live freely
- Read more books & poetry
- Spend equal time teaching & learning
- Get more facials
- Stop TV marathoning (no more than one episode at a time!)
- Keep bringing lunch to work
- Stop swearing (or at least, swear a lot less)
- Cook a new recipe every weekend
- Have people over more!
- Eat mostly plant-based but don’t be rigid about rules
- Don’t let people I dislike cause pain
- Wear sunscreen (find a sunscreen I'll wear first)
- Switch to natural deodorant
- Push work to a higher quality, every day
- Watch more new movies and documentaries
- Make fewer, better, more meaningful photographs
- Less screen time (esp. Instagram)
- Relearn how to single-task
- Stop saying "you guys"
