I am going to try to blog every single day in 2014 - but only positive thoughts. Even if it is just a sentence about a wonder from that day.
I'm done with that whole resolution business. Instead I've decided to create a theme for the year and set some goals.
Theme: Always be better! This applies to all aspects of my life. I will try to do better, I will try to be better! I want to improve myself mentally, emotionally and physically.
Goal 1: Learn to Run. In 2008, I ran the Sporting Life 10k, and I did zero training. I have tried to run in the past, but didn't follow a program and so I always got some sort of injury and fizzled out. I am running the Yonge Street 10K in April and I am training properly this time. I've started the Couch to 5k program and after that will complete the Bridge to 10k program. If the run in April goes well, I have my eye on 2 more races.
Goal 2: Read more - I aimed for 35 books with project 35, and I think I read 15. This year I will just aim to improve that number.
Goal 3: Craft Wiser - knitting and crocheting is a large part of my unwinding and relaxing time. But I have amassed a large amount of supplies. I don't *need* to buy anything. I am going to suppress that urge as much as possible and use what I have already!
Goal 4: be kinder - I want to be the kind of person who brings empathy and understanding to the world. I want to bring kindness and joy to others. I will be kinder in thoughts and in actions.
Goal 5: be more optimistic - this used to come to me so easily, but not so any more. I often feel tired, run down. I think motherhood just exhausts you. I feel like the energy it used to take to be optimistic is all used up on other stuff now. But not anymore! I want to have positivity in my life. You know that whole 'fake it til you make it' idea? Well, I'm gonna do that, with optimism and positivity.
So that's gonna be 2014 in a nutshell!
New Year's Day was a great day for me. We spent the day with my family, I went running with my sisters and mom, I saw my children be so loving and kind to their baby cousin. It was an amazing day!
1 comment:
Love your themes for this year: Numbers 3-5 really resonate with me and are my "goals" for the year as well :)
An idea that's popped in and out of my head for the past few years for something to do with the unused yarn is to make baby and chemo caps for the hospital.
Being the kind of person that you are, I'm sure you've thought of that, but figured I'd mention it :)
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