News Years Resolutions

Every year I have the best of intentions to start the year. After all, its a clean slate! I can start as I intend to finish . I'll be fitter and heathier! I'll be slimmer and take better care of myself. I'll be more organised and manage my time efficiently. There'll be no late payments of Bills or forgotten birthdays. I will remember to send a card to all my nieces and nephews. I will write an old fashioned letter every week to my mum and my in-laws. This year i will be in touch with my christmas card friends before December.

Like I said the best of intentions.

We set our expectations of ourselves so high , then beat ourselves up when we don't achieve them. There you go, another broken resolution! There's always someone else out there to commisserate with , they'll share that cream bun, light that cigarette and point out as if to comfort you; their own broken resolutions. We're all the same!

This year I'm changing my direction.
This year it won't be about ME but about someone else! My rules are simple and summed up in this little prayer that I clipped from the newspaper a couple of years ago.

"Can you say today in parting with the day that's slipping past
That you helped a single person of the many that you passed.
Is a single one rejoicing over what you did or said?
Did one whose hopes were fading, now with courage look ahead?
Did you waste a day or lose it- was it well or poorly spent?
Did you leave a trail of kindness, or a scar of discontent?
As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say,
"You have made the world much better for the life you've lived today!"

So my resolutions for the year?
I'm going to give more and be less self indulgent! I'll talk less and listen more, sometimes you don't get the point of a story until right at the end.
I'll stop counting time and start relishing moments. When I scrapbook, there'll be much more journalling from my heart to remind me of my riches!
I'll make beautiful cards to give away for no particular occasion, just to make someone smile! I'm going to cast a goodwill eye on my entire home and all those sad old possessions I've been accumulating and no longer need can go to charities.
I'm going to put a tin of cat and dog food in the Sippy Downs Animal Shelter Donation bin at the super market every week. I'll buy raffle tickets whenever i see them being sold. That a tough job sitting there selling tickets. (Even if i buy just one.)
I will write to our parents, maybe not weekly but often ( Hey I could send them a card!!!)
I'm going to write on my blog every day.
There, that seems more achievable!
Have a happy new year!
With Love from Linda.