Well hello there! I have not forgotten that I still have this blog, though I have greatly neglected it lately and for that I apologize. In fact when I started writing this post I realized that I had not wrote a post since May. Whoops. Once upon a time, I thought that since I have no children I should naturally have all this time on my hands. Negative. I'm busy. And I don't have the time to sit down and write the first thing that comes to mind everyday(you wouldn't want to read that anyways!).
Anyways, it's about that time of the year again folks. 2015 is nearly upon us. It's time for the whole 'new year, new me' BS that will be flooding your Facebook news feed. The pasta eating, beer drinking, cookie loving people (much like myself) will seemingly turn into a workout guru overnight and bore you with the unnecessary snap chats showing themselves on the treadmill at the gym. Prepare yourself people, the Facebook statuses are about to get real. #neverfeltbetter #healthy2015 #lovethegym #veggiesforsupper #omgshutup. As annoying as I find this, I once had the same mentality at New Years time, (although I refrained from the annoying Facebook statuses because I have a strict vow of celibaselfie (celibacy against taking selfies....I just made that up). I had all this stuff wrote down that I was going to do in the new year, such as workout 5 times a week, cut sugar out of my diet, blah blah blah.
For the past 5-6 years I have gotten all jacked up for the new year and wrote down my goals that I wanted to accomplish. I would hang that list next to my mirror and look at it for several months until I got bored, lazy or frustrated and I would take it down. When the end of the year would roll around I would dig that piece of paper out and be pissed because I only accomplished a few of the goals that I set for myself. It was depressing, really! I would look back and think to myself, 'jeez you didn't even do THAT?'
Anyone that knows me knows that I have a filthy habit and several years ago I made a new years resolution to kick that nasty habit. I quit cold turkey on the 1st of January and made it six months before I started that habit again. I felt like a failure. I had it beat! I made it 6 months and half way thru the year I thought, "screw it, this is too hard." One more failed New Years resolution down the drain!
Going into 2015, I'm gonna be a rebel. I am not making New Years resolutions. Why? See above. What I am doing instead is looking back at 2014 and reflecting on the things that I am proud of. What did you do in 2014 that made you satisfied with yourself? Give yourself credit for what you did even if it may be something small! Quit being so hard on yourself and instead of going into the New Year telling yourself you are going to do all these things that are most likely un realistic, look back, pick out the highlights from the year, give yourself a pat on the back and say "I kicked 2014's ass!" #boom.
Looking back at 2014 there's a lot of things I didn't do. I didn't magically trim down to a size 0, I didn't kick that filthy habit, I didn't make the Circuit Finals, I didn't do this and I didn't do that. You know what I did do? I started Yoga and started back to Tae Kwon Do after 10 years and have stuck with it. I read books, lots of them. I started watching Fox news in the morning (not that I'm really proud of that, but at least I have a better grasp on what's going on in this screwed up world!). I had a good summer on a green horse. I got back on a horse after breaking my back in 2013. These sound like little things, but hey I'm gonna give myself credit. I'm not focusing on what I didn't do or the goals that I didn't meet. So try it! But don't post a selfie with #soproudofmyself. I might have to defriend you.
Good luck in 2015!
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