Tuesday, January 5, 2010

new year/new you

i LOVE resolutions/goals/plans/etc... i love looking at the places where i want to improve or change my life and setting myself up for success. usually i go a little overboard at the beginning of a new year because everyone is writing resolutions and i just get so excited! so i put together a little (LONG) list of resolutions myself.

i'll share just a few of them with you:

-get regular haircuts this year! i usually wait and wait and wait until i look like a shaggy dog with a mullet before i begin thinking about making an appointment. not this year!

-play my cello more often i still get it out every once in awhile, but i want to be more structured in my practice/playing time. i really enjoy it.

-don't date anyone under the age of 24 i'm turning 26 in a few days and i think it's time to start focusing any dating energy on grown-ups. hopefully this will be easier to achieve in colorado.

-climb a fourteener!! i've never done this and i might be the only person in colorado who hasn't. it will be done before the end of the year.

-organize my favorite recipes i pull recipes off of food blogs and cooking websites, from friends, and out of the stack of cookbooks i have on my shelf. i want to put all my favorite ones in one place. my own cookbook.

there are a few more, but i think this is a good list to stick to. the tricky part of resolutions or goals is their tendency to be vague or open-ended. but out of this list of five, three of them are outright goals with measurable results (have i climbed a fourteener? yes or no) and the other two are simple enough to put into a schedule (hair appointments every 3 months...)

i'm pretty excited for what this year has to offer! and i'm still sticking to my overall motto of more men in 2010!!!

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