Resolutions

I'm a big believer in New Year's Resolutions, though I fail at as many as I keep (if not more). Having an external reason to start fresh is invigorating, kinda like a big clothing sale makes buying something you don't need and may not wear more exciting ... and you may actually wear it more because it was "such a good deal". My husband doesn't buy this logic, but I think it's pretty sound.

So, New Year's resolutions:
1. Write more (ergo this blog and a children's writing program I just started)
2. Spend more time reflecting (I'm hoping this will make me grow up more quickly, but I'm not sure that's a realistic hope)
3. Learn to love my husband more like I love my daughter, unconditionally
4. Eat more real food (http://realfood.info/)
5. Do yoga more often ... makes me feel so good, inside and out
6. Lose the rest of the pregnancy weight by spring break (not really a goal I want to make public, but oh well)

Six goals is enough, right? Too many maybe? I don't know. And I don't know why I'd be more motivated this year than I was last year or the year before or the year before that. But I do want to live a better life, truly I do, and I think getting better at these things would help me do that.

The difficult part is coming up with strategies to keep my goals. My strategies rarely work because the desire I feel for something in the moment (vegging in front of the TV, baking and eating chocolate cake, thinking about yoga instead of doing it ... maybe all of these at once?) is almost always a stronger feeling than my desire to meet my long term goal of actually being a healthier person. I guess I'm hedonistic that way. But resolution means to solve again right? Re = again. So I guess that's the point of New Year's resolutions, to try, once again, to tackle things I've failed at before.

So here we go 2010!