Showing posts with label New Year Resolutions for 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Year Resolutions for 2014. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

2014 New Year Resolutions


New Year Resolutions by rlsimpson Jan 1, 2014


I do not make them.

I tried once upon a time, maybe, or maybe it was someone else in my other life. Don’t keep them , don’t waste my life making them.  I am just happy to wake up each morning and after my nap. I would love to keep getting healthier and maybe loose a lot more weight –but really, it is not worth making a resolution for, is it?

 I have decided to keep a positive vibe jar. It is a plastic jar with a screw top lid that started out its life as a peanut filled pretzel container. They were not that good and I tried to pour boiling water over the glued on labels –only to melt the container, so that it sags a little to the side. I am thinking contact paper. –Into this jar, I will put slips of paper in, having written on laughing out loud moments of my life. I started today, Jan 1,2014. I will read them all on Dec 31,2014.

 I already have one. Today, because we are expecting snow, I backed my front wheel drive car up my steep driveway. It took me 4 maybe 5 times to get it in the right position. By the time I was finished I was laughing out loud at my silly self. Ok so little things amuse me. I haven’t actually put the slip of paper in the container because I have to wash it out, and find the just right contact paper at the dollar store.

I also have given myself one habit to make. I will look people in the eyes when I smile at them. When I lost that ability and reverted back to my shy, unobservant self, I have no idea. But I do not like that me.

 Oh and a new Mantra from “Eat. Pray, Love”:
 “Never let anyone love you less, than you love yourself.” I really like that.

That should about do it for my 62nd-63rd year.