Yep. It’s the New Year! It’s time to make happen all of our resolutions and great hopes and promises to ourselves. I have many, of course...lose some weight, take better care of myself, eat healthy, exercise, blah blah, etc. But this year my big one... STOP PROCRASTINATING! I’m terribly good at this! If you know me, you know it’s true.
New Years is a weird time for me. I absolutely abhor New Years Eve. I find myself trying to smile real big and hide my trembling lips, teary eyes and uncontrollable urge to burst into tears when I hear that darned “Auld Lang Syne”. But it’s IMPOSSIBLE to mask, as we HAVE to, at exactly the same time(!), smooch the loves of our lives, our precious children, and amazing family and friends (which I wouldn’t miss for ANYTHING in the world, by the way). I am so emotional at midnight. Not for any real reason? Just something coming to an end I guess.
What is even more weird...I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE New Years Day! HA! New beginnings, I guess?? I love getting together with my wonderful family and play all of the new games Santa brought us. I eat myself into oblivion, but I have to eat all those peas and collards! Luck & Money, gotta have those all year long. Yes, new beginnings! They feel wonderful! A new chance to get it right, clean slate. I am really excited to get started on the healthier eating, and I’m already back on the treadmill and feeling stronger (and super stoked to start my new Dynasty DVDs, thanks family!). But I really want to work on my procrastination. I have those piles in the closet, the pictures I need to hang in the basement, the mountain of magazines I MUST throw away because I really will NOT ever look at them again! And filing our bills away! Ugh! I’m not sure how many years are piled on that desk. It’s chaos. It stresses me out and it drives me crazy. It drives my hubby crazy too, God bless his sweet heart. I need to de-clutter. I will be productive in 2012.
OK. So I am putting this out in the universe in hopes that this “procrastination declaration” will motivate me and hold me accountable to make some much needed changes.
My goal for the new year....a lighter, clearer, more organized me. When it needs to be done, I’m going to do it!
...and for the people that love me, give me a little nudge now and then and tell me to get off my @$$. :)))
Happy New Year!
M
