New Years is often a time when people decide they need to fill their already busy lives with things they've felt guilty about not doing. It's not that those things are particularly essential to their lives or their happiness. It's just they see other people doing them and feel they should too. I used to be the exact same way. However, after having a lesson in church on needing to simplify our lives in order to be happy, I have a very different list for myself this year.
1. Yoga in the morning. I realize this is something many people would do because they feel guilty about not doing it, but it is something I enjoy and often give up because I feel there are other things I have to do.
2. Time for myself.
3. Have real conversations with people, one at a time.
4. Focus on what I'm doing at the moment and do it "like crazy" (There's a story behind that one.)
5. Make sure the people I care about know I care.
My PR professors would tell me these goals need to be broken down into specific, measurable objectives for them to be accomplished. To a point I agree, but the main point of these goals or of any resolution, really, is to make sure my life is going the way I want it to, and sometimes the best way to be happy and to get done the things you really need to, is to just say "no" every once in a while, or maybe a lot, because saying "no" doesn't belittle anything. It only increases the worth of the things you decide to say "yes" to.
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