I’m really looking forward to 2010. I’m not sure why. Maybe I just like the sound of it. Twenty-ten. It has a nice ring to it. I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions because I find them pointless. I do set goals for each year though. I don’t tend to make those goals public, but they give me something to work toward. I met most of my goals for 2009. One of my big goals didn’t quite make it though. That was the publication of Red. I could’ve forced it with a self-publish option, but I chose not to. (I’ll discuss this further in another post eventually.) I’ll move that goal to 2010 and ask all of you to send positive vibes into the universe for me that a publisher will offer me a fabulous contract.
Ringing in the New Year is always interesting to me. I tend to analyze, plan, and re-evaluate things constantly, so I don’t feel that end of year push to make changes in the coming year. I’m always happy to celebrate the completion of one year and the beginning of another. Celebrating a year’s successes is great fun. Learning from a year’s failures is just as important and sometimes worth a celebratory note as well. Accepting the things beyond my control in a given year is usually the hardest thing for me. I always search for what I could’ve done differently to give myself a different outcome. I have a hard time accepting it when there was nothing. That’s the control-freak perfectionist in me rearing her ugly head, but that’s okay. I give her a little chocolate and sparkling wine and tell her to take a nap. Yeah, never works, but the chocolate and wine taste good.
I’m happy with where I stand in my life on this last day of 2009 and looking forward into 2010. Not every move was a success, but every move brought something to my life that may not have been there otherwise.
So I hope you’ll take a few minutes to reflect on your successes and your failures as well as what you learned from both. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to appreciate those who’ve brought love, laughter, and joy into your life not just in 2009 but throughout your life. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to think how you can bring love, laughter, and joy into someone else’s life.
Wishing you happy memories of 2009 and great memory making in 2010!
Happy New Year!
January 5th, 2010 at 11:09 pm Is “posting more” on your goal-list? I’m really enjoying these, so keep going, please!
January 5th, 2010 at 11:22 pm I’m going to say “yes”. Now I’m committed.