Resolutions?

You know the drill. As we head towards the end of the year, people start thinking about resolutions, about a word for the new year, about goals.
There are loads of old and new videos and articles out there telling you how to do achieve goals and make resolutions stick.

In 2014, I wrote about not being one of those people. If it works for you, that's great, but we all have to find our own ways.
For me a new year really is just learning how to write a new number, not a clean slate. I don't need New Year's Day to set goals or make resolutions, actually I feel it works better for me if I do that whenever I'm ready for it throughout the year.

Times are so hard for many people, so much is happening in the world, and as a notorious overthinker and born pessimist I often struggle with processing that without it making me fall right into a big dark hole.
So I figured that if I thought about the New Year, it would be better if I tried to make it about the things I was looking forward to (in random order and without a claim on completeness).

Supercozy naps. Who needs a weighted blanket if you can get yourself pinned down by the supernappers.
Bonus - snuggle sessions.

Books, books, books!

Picture via pxhere

Watching more silent movies (and talkies).

Doug is looking forward to it, too.

Crafting if I can.

Going down rabbit holes, learning new things, ...

Valerie Hinojosa from Washington DC, USA,
CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
"Down the Rabbit Hole"

... and blogging about them.

Smiling and laughing (yes, that's actually me in an old picture). Extra points for laughing until I cry and my stomach hurts.

Nostalgia and memories.
I don't see the past through rose-tinted glasses, but that doesn't mean it can't be nice to go back in time every, now and then.

No, I'm NOT in this picture (one of my parcel guys
once asked me if I was when he saw it in the house hallway 😂
We got it because the cat looked so much like our Dude.).

Noticing beauty and joy in the world around me.
Feeling spring in the air, listening to autumn leaves crunching under my feet, seeing dew drops in a spider web.
Exchanging a few friendly words with a stranger on the bus. Singing along to a favorite song.
Hearing a bird sing, smelling a flower, having one of my night visitors at the window.

Communicating with my favorite people. Sorry, no picture for that for privacy reasons.

Well, and of course I'm looking forward to interacting with you!
What's something you are looking forward to?

The twenty-eighth door

Only three more days, then it will be New Year's Eve.

You can never start early enough on your resolutions for the new year. If you are still game to make any, that is. I pretty much gave up on them.

 

It feels like a diet that starts tomorrow or on Monday - or in the new year. I will set up goals for my business, I will save money, I will lose weight, I will eat healthier, I will answer all my e-mails on the same day, I will get up with a smile in the mornings ... and maybe I'll save the world.

Well, I will try to go one step at a time. And if it doesn't work out, I won't beat myself up about it. If I stumble, I'll get up again.

This is all I can, want and will promise. After all we are all human.