Happy New Year!!!
Maybe if I put my goals/resolutions/whatever-you-want-to-call-them in writing I'll be more likely to reach them. This is me giving you permission to accountabilitize me this year.
Love people.
This is especially geared towards loving people I know or know of, but don't like. That sounds mean (because I can be), but it is truly something I have been working on and am making a serious goal of this year. God loves me and all of you. He commands me to love Him and all of you. In order to reach this goal I plan to be more vulnerable (I hate that word) with the people currently in my life, be more welcoming to new people at church, and make a point to learn about and invest in others' lives before and without passing judgment on whether or not they seem like someone I'd normally be friends with.
Find joy in today's situation.
I struggle tremendously with anxiety about the future - what it will hold, and more often what it might not hold for me. I want to experience God's joy in each and every circumstance in which I find myself this year. If you catch me worrying incessantly about things out of my control please call me out on it (not too harshly please - at least until about midyear).
Be content with my physical appearance, regardless of its state.
I don't want to make any specific health and fitness goals this year. I'm generally healthy and active and am happy to say I've seen results with my recent fitness adventures. Sure, it would be nice to shed a few+ pounds and drop a dress size but my focus this year is to be happy with being healthy. I want to enjoy being active, viewing it as an opportunity rather than a chore. I want to see myself as beautiful because God created me, not because I'm having a good hair day. I want my inner beauty (which I'm still working on - hence the first two goals) to shine brighter than any fitness or beauty regime can produce.
Spend less money.
I need to budget. It's going to suck but I need to do it. I don't go on absurd shopping sprees or throw money at my problems (except for maybe when I'm PMSing and I NEED something-anything at target). However, I don't track or evaluate my spending and therefore don't save. My income isn't great and I do have car and student loan payments to make, but I know there's room for improvement and I'm determined to find it this year.
Shave my legs more often than once per week.
Kidding. Kind of.
