I spent all day traveling yesterday to get back to incredibly chilly and snowy MI. During this time, I napped, listened to some tunes and did some thinking. Being on a plane for over four hours with delayed flights, driving for over 2 and half hours and taking the train and a boat to get home gives you time to think.
oh yeah and I walked up 3 GIANT hills in Seattle to get to the train pulling two suitcases – brutal!
There were all kinds of ideas floating around in my head about what I wanted my resolutions to include. Weight loss, running PRs, saving all the monies, cranking up my domestic and decorating skills, being a better daughter, sister, friend… the list went on and it was kind of overwhelming.
Today, I started watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy and came to a very important conclusion. I’m not making any resolutions this year.
Each January I make lofty goals about how I am going to change my life in the upcoming year. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t see anything wrong with this practice. In fact, I even accomplish a few of them. But yesterday as I was sitting in the airport reading over all of the fb posts about how fabulous years were, all I could think about was how my year WASN’T fabulous. This was the approximate time when I started feeling sorry for myself.
It took me another lay over to see I could think of this past year with a positive spin or a negative one. Since I’ve been working to slow the negative thoughts down, I opted for the positive spin and it lifted my cloud of negativity. Nevertheless, I am not sure I want to establish a check list for this year. I think I want this year to unfold based on what is happening in my life and the direction it is going. There is a scene in the last Harry Potter movie where Hermione says they need to create a plan. Harry responds with, “when have any of our plans actually worked? We plan, we get there, all hell breaks loose” – this is my life!
tru dat Harry
So, I’m going to make goals as I go along. All of those things I mentioned above will be themes in the following days and being happy will be my main focus. The rest will be gravy.
Plans might not work, but just like Harry’s adventure, the end always comes out alright :)
Thanks – you are so right!