It never fails this time of year to reflect and want to start again. The term resolution means:
1. The state or quality of being resolute; firm determination.
2. A resolving to do something.
3. A course of action determined or decided on.
I think that for many individuals the quality of being in a resolution is the challenge not the state. Many of you will set out resolutions to lose weight, save money, go back to school, but are you challenging yourself enough to have a quality state of being within the resolution?
As a working mom and wife the quality of my tasks and goals continues to grow and change. I haven’t thought about resolutions this year until I read The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. Rubin, who knew she should be happy went on a quest for an entire year to have small resolutions each month focused on a theme. One month she focused on wellbeing, and purges shelves and added more exercise. Another month she focused on parenthood and became determine to create a house of happy treasured memories. In each month she challenged herself with goals and held herself accountable through a blog and also daily recognition charts. I think her approach is not only a good one but one filled with quality.
So I am doing the same thing. And I am keeping accountable through writing in my blog again, six days a week. I stopped for two reasons, I was not emotionally ready to really spill my guts, and two school really got in the way.
The Alien and Caveman are three and five respectably. Big Papi is still himself and I feel wiser now that I am in my 30s, although Crazy Grandma would tell you that really life doesn’t happen until you’re 40- she always makes me wait.
So welcome back to the Alien and Caveman universe- I have missed you.
