I’m super behind with sharing my resolutions for this year, sorry! It took me forever to make myself sit down and type them out and as a result, I’m not actually starting them until more like the end of January instead of the beginning of the year. My bad. After I reflected on my past year and looked at the New Year ahead of me, I felt so proud of myself for getting that far. Unfortunately, the most important step – the implementation of these resolutions have been put off. I’m finally biting the bullet, sitting down and making these resolutions much more official by posting them on my blog for the world to see. Here ‘ya go world!
First let’s start by reviewing my resolutions for 2010…we’re going to start backwards and work our way up…
8. Visit at least 3 different states besides Illinois and Kentucky.
-I succeeded with this resolution by visiting Tennessee, New York, Virginia, Alaska, Washington, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania – shoo!
7. Fix my sewing machine/get a new one.
-I succeeded with this resolution when my wonderful husband supported my purchase of my *new Brother sewing machine.
6. Learn to sew.
-Check. I took a sewing class at JoAnns and since then, I’ve been a sewing fanatic. I can’t seem to get it off my mind and I’m constantly looking for and coming up with new projects that I can try my hand at.
5. Maintain a 3.0 GPA in grad school.
-This resolution was kept, and at the time it seemed like a really ambitious resolution as I hadn’t started school yet and I didn’t know what to expect. Getting good grades has simply meant that I stay on top of my work and give my best effort.
4. Complete at least 25 hours of grad school.
-In the year 2010 I got 27 hours of grad classes under my belt, soundly securing my 25 goal.
3. Train to run; 5 miles regularly (2-3 times a week)
-Big. Fat. Fail. If you’ve perused my “Work-out Diaries” page you can see that I started the year out by really making an effort to become a runner. I was going strong until about March-April and then I fell off the wagon and haven’t seemed to be able to get back on. Ouch.
2. Memorize Scripture on a weekly basis.
-This one hurts even more to admit that I also failed at this. I don’t even think I made it to April in trying to keep this resolution; I just flat-out failed it from early on and then continued to live life without even thinking about it. It’s incredibly embarrassing/humbling for me to even type that out.
1. Be in the Word daily.
-I would be lying if I told you that every single day, 365 days in 2010 I was in the Word reflecting on God’s truth. Again, I fell incredibly short at living out this resolution.
What have I learned by going through these resolutions from 2010? That I was really good at keeping the unimportant, of this world type of resolutions and I fell flat on my face when it came to keeping the resolutions that actually matter in my life. As a result, my resolutions for 2011 look a bit different than they did for 2010. I steered clear of making resolutions around things that would be considered fun for me to do (and that I’d probably do with or without a resolution) and I stuck with making resolutions that were much more relevant to my relationship with Christ and my relationship with my husband. My small group decided to come up with a word to share with each other that summed up what we wanted to work on in this “new” year. I came up with a word after looking through my resolutions and realizing that they all had a theme.
If you’ve actually read this far, I’m impressed and am blessed that you care so much J. I’m also sorry to tell you that I’m going to hold off sharing my resolutions until tomorrow as I realize that this post developed a mind of its own somewhere along the way and it’s way out of control now!
To be continued…
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tell me your resolutions!!!!!!!
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