as we’ve done for the past couple of years Cody and I kicked off the new year with a ‘date day’; shopping the stores where we received gift cards for Christmas, watching a movie, and then eating at the Cheesecake Factory. it’s one of the days I look forward to most every year. in what started as a play on new year’s resolution mockery a few years back, last year we actually put pen to paper and jotted down our ambitions in a few key areas (relationships, work, finances, etc.) over dinner. I thought the exercise would keep us ‘rowing in the same direction’ and was excited to open the envelope and see what we had accomplished in 2014.
talk about disappointing! what we found was that we failed. yep, failed. on the whole we really sucked it up. and actually, after reading each of the colossal goals I wanted to get, not one but, three pieces of fattening, indulgent cheesecake just to drown my vague ‘eat better’ goal sorrows. honestly, it’s not that we didn’t meet some of the goals there were just too many with no clear action items or steps to measure our progress. I really envisioned it differently. I pictured us giving ourselves a big ‘ole pat on the back for all that we had accomplished. it’s clear i was delusional. i mean, who creates two pages of goals and never looks back at them?!? duh!
not this year. nope this year we are doing what any sane person would do when they realize they set lofty goals met with only marginal fulfillment or none at all – we lowered our standards. we penned a new list, limited it to one page, and then devoured our cheesecake. this year we’ll keep our goals front and center and revisit them periodically and maybe, just maybe, we’ll be able to check most off by the end of 2015 making this the.best.year.yet!!
if you’re interested in creating goals of your own for the new year i’ve attached the printable i created for cody and I.
until next time.
