2015 passed and I made a list of things I wanted to accomplish in that year.
For the most part, I think I was fairly successful.
There’s a lot of talk about not making resolutions, and part of me thinks that maybe I should just throw in the towel and not make any.
I mean, who has ever made a resolution, or a list of resolutions, and kept them all?
Is making resolutions the epitome of setting yourself up for failure?
I don’t know.
I think resolutions and goals and wishes show hope.
And isn’t that really what we all need?
A little hope?
So, for 2016, I’ve got some hope.
Hope that the world will be better than it was last year.
That people will treat each other with more kindness and respect.
That we can heal.
I also hope that I can be better.
I have hope that I will make good choices.
I have hope that I will be patient.
I have hope that I will be a person I want my children to grow up to emulate.
Those are my big hopes for 2016.
On a smaller front…
- I hope to make time for myself this year. In 2015, I rejoined both my handbell and my singing choir as an effort to regain some much needed time doing something that was just for me. And then hockey changed nights and suddenly, I had to bring Tiny and Monkey Boy with me to handbells, and couldn’t stay to sing. That’s being a Mom and having responsibilities, and I am 100% aware of that. However… whether it’s getting a sitter on choir nights or carving out thirty minutes a day to exercise, I need to commit to myself.
- I hope to bulk up our bank. I always have goals to save money or to make money, but the bottom line is, in 2016, I want to be successful with our finances. We have four kids to eventually put through college, and places we want to go and things we want to see. This is the year I hope to pay more attention to the little things and stop the leaks before they happen. There’s a lot of stuff around here, as well. Stuff that I think someone else might be happy to have, and so I plan to sell and donate many, many things.
- I hope to write. Somewhere, something. Just write. Publishing would be amazing, but I love to write, and I want to get back to that. Writing for the love of it.
- I hope to be the change I want to see in the world. I tell my own children and my students countless times per day that we should be as kind as possible as often as possible. In 2016, I hope to be a living example of this. I think I do a good job of this, but we can always do better. We have to do better.
And, so there you have it.
And, with any luck, hopes turn into reality and we all have a good year.
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