Happy 2023!!! Here's to a new year!! Here's to you! Here's to me! I don't do resolutions, but instead I do "things to look forward to trying to do". My whole family does this practice as a tradition. In other words, it's by force....sort of 😂! I can't remember where I heard this suggestion, but I adopted it for my family and love it. Every year at the beginning of the new year, we each write personal "things to look forward to trying to do" or wishes or dreams or whatever you wanna call them on a small piece of paper and put it in our Christmas stockings without sharing it with anyone else. On Christmas of that same year, so nearly a full year later, we open them up and read them aloud to each other. So in reality, any of us could make them into resolutions if they choose. Mine are not resolutions. I gave up resolutions years ago, because I discovered that my resolutions were bringing me down instead of lifting me up. They were not set in joy but set in frustration or fear. My best friend told me that someone told her you create your vision board out of love, not out of disdain or doubt or sadness. After thinking about this, I realized that this is what we do each year on those little pieces of paper. We write down things we dream about doing or aspire to do. Mine are always written with a posture of love and joy, and I hope my family's are as well. When I read my list from last year, I was pretty happy about being able to do many of the "things I looked forward to trying to do", because they are things that I knew I would enjoy.
Here is my list:
Write more!
Read More!
Learn how to make cream puffs!
Exercise regularly!
Save $!
Go on adventures!
Go on a family trip!
Live music!
So if you do resolutions, you do you, but maybe think about the posture and attitude in which you plan for 2023!!
Do everything in love! 1 Corinthians 16:14
