RESOLUTIONS 2008
It’s RESOLUTION TIME! As much as I’d like to be perfectly disciplined and thin, I’ve decided to make realistic, baby step changes this year. Small, doable changes. I welcome your comments!
1)EXPLORE my activitist tendencies and VOLUNTEER. Whether it be a political candidate or social justice issues, I really am an activitist at heart. There are just so many things I feel strongly about. This year I am going to activate the activism.
2) WRITE/ BLOG 3x weekly. Over the holiday I read Anne Lamott’s “Bird by Bird.” She suggests one write daily. I know that I can’t do that right now. My life doesn’t allow for it. I need to have success at a smaller goal first. Three blogs a week I can do. Who knows, maybe some weeks there will be four entries.
3) WORK OUT 3x weekly. Again, daily is too much. It WILL NOT happen. I’m not going to promise to lose 50 lbs or run a marathon, but getting my behind on an elliptical machine three days a week is doable. Especially since it will give me some one on one time with my iPod (by the way, I’m cheating on my laptop with my iPod right now. I got a new video nano for Christmas and we’re having a torrid affair!).
4) SAY WHAT I MEAN AND MEAN WHAT I SAY I have recently become aware of how prevelant unhealthy passive aggressive comments and actions are in my family. People don’t even realize they are doing it. It’s certainly not meant to be hurtful or malicious, however this subtle manipulation is subversively woven into the fabric of regular conversation. I thought I had broken myself of participating in it and responding to it. This week I learned that that isn’t true. ARGH! Now I LOVE my fam and I know they love me. I’m under no delusion that I can change them, but I MUST change me. It makes me feel like such a child that this is still an issue. It is much less of an issue when I am not with them, but the fact that it is there at all is embarassing to me. I know I can’t just eliminate it over night, but this habit, way of operating must STOP.
5) Spend time in prayer, reading, and reflection 3x a week. (I can’t call it a “quiet time.” Too much evangelical baggage! ) Again, with a goal of 3x a week I can succeed. I know that I do better with daily time like this but this is realistic.
