I’ve spent the last few weeks focusing on family, trying to not let the Holiday season stress me out or bring me down, organizing my home, organizing my business and just living in my mind. That’s really the only way to describe it … living in my mind. I went about my daily business just thinking A LOT and probing even more.
I’ve just allowed thoughts, goals, emotions to come and go as they please. Some sat longer than others and visited with me while others jumped in, made themselves known and then headed back out.
And of course, since it was the close of 2011, I spend a lot of time reflecting on the year that passed and planning for the year ahead.
I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. Mostly because I have never followed through with any that I made in the past and dammit … I know that this year will be no different. So, I decided to do what I did last year … declare a motto (or a quest) to focus on and do my damnedest to live by it. On January 27, 2011 the status update on my Facebook fanpage, was “I’ve decided that these sayings will be my motto & quest for the year … SIMPLIFY & LIVE HEALTHY.” These resolutions weren’t just for me, but served as reminders on how I should care for my family too.
I am crazy proud to say that I lived up to theses quests to the best of my ability.
I have SIMPLIFIED by:
- My house feels like a home. Sounds simple and maybe a little silly, but it’s important to me. I want comfort and warmth in my home. I think I have succeeded.
- Most everything (after a move from a year and a half ago) has finally found its place. Everything must have a place.
- Paper … Bye, bye. Hello Evernote! I have been using this for a while, but signed up from their premium account because it’s totally worth it and provides so many more features that I have found useful. (I know this bullet point it totally vague, but I had to stop myself from turning this bullet point itself into an entire blog post.)
- I’m continually working on clearing my mind of its clutter. Getting bogged down in the unimportant is a horrible down fall of mine.
- I have gotten my systems together. My system for meal planning, my system for the morning routine, my system for memory keeping/keepsake saving for my girls and many more systems that will not list because it will make me look crazier that I already have.
- Etcetera, etcetera …
I have LIVED HEALTHY by:
- I workout at least three times a week at a minimum … Hard ass workouts with a great group of ladies and an awesome trainer.
- I feel healthy. I think I’ve lost weight, but I know I for sure that I look better than did one year ago (can you say ten months post-partum?)
- My daughters think that working out is a normal part of life. Many times Mark and I would run together taking turns pushing them in the double stroller and Kyra is often quoted saying she wants to go to the gym and get stronger.
- We have transitioned to more organic and fresh foods while eliminating processed foods where ever possible.
- Mark and I spend time alone, just the two of us, as often as we can or we date-night it with our favorite couples/friends who we can just be ourselves around.
- Mark and I spend time apart. We encourage each other to do so as needed. We love each other more because of it.
- I focus my time and energy on those people who energize me. I hope I do the same for them.
- Etcetera, etcetera …
Both of these still need work. This is why I call them a quest or motto rather than New Year’s resolution. They were, still are, about life change. They are about making the millions (yes, millions) of projects/ideas/goals/etcetera palatable because they can be boiled down to a one or two word phrase. If I screw it up, they make it easier to get back on track quickly with no guilt. So, all that being said I am adding to 2011′s mottos with my main goal for 2012 and beyond. I want and need to BE BETTER.
I will be:
- A better mother.
- A better wife.
- A better sister.
- A better daugther.
- A better friend.
- A better photographer.
- A better writer.
- Etcetera, etcetera …
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