Happy New Year!! I spent New Year's Eve with family and friend laughing, joking, playing games, eating good food and having a great time. Even though winter is not my favorite time of the year, I do love looking forward to a new year, starting fresh, the whole clean slate thing. I spent yesterday afternoon going through my closet just getting rid of things that have been there too long, straightening things up, putting things where they should be. It felt good.
As I begin 2013, the word resolutions come to mind. I have set resolutions in the past only to get overwhelmed and discouraged. Instead of thinking in terms of resolutions, I am going to use the word CHOOSE to set some goals and clear up my outlook. I choose....
-to get current on Project Life for 2012. I am not stressing about this at all(this is my 3rd year of doing PL), I am up to date on my journaling and picture taking, I just have not printed pictures for the last three months. It's just a matter of printing the pictures, and putting everything in the photo pockets and adding my journaling and whatever embellishments I want to include. I have been behind in the past, so for me this is very doable. Just need to GET IT DONE.
-to complete my December Daily album. Again, this is a doable project. This is my 2nd year doing this album. I LOVE my album from last year. Again, I know what pictures I want to include and have journaled through the month. I just need to sit down and put everything together. The creative side of this is where I get stuck because I over think things. Once I get going it is not quite a problem, it's just getting out of first gear.
-to stop being a cyber peeker in creative galleries and get more involved whether it is just opening up and communicating in various member galleries to also maybe actually submitting/posting some of my own work! For me, this is a big one.
-to be more open and to just get out of my own way. I want to stop hemming and hawing in my own personal life. I have been sitting on the sidelines too long. Not in terms of taking care of my family, my home and that sort of thing but in terms of my own life and goals I want to achieve.
So, as the first day of 2013 cruises along I am looking forward to this year and everything it has in store. I want to step out of my comfort zone and choose to be pleasantly surprised at the outcome no matter what. I heard Paula Deen state this(someone else might have said this too but I'm quoting Paula :-)) and it has stuck with me: "The sin is not in failing, the sin is in not trying."
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