attempting to achieve

I don't like the word resolution.

Resolution is sometimes defined as: finding a solution to a problem

I do like the word goal.

Goal is sometimes defined as: a result that one is attempting to achieve

So this year I am not making New Year's resolutions. I don't like to think of the things I want to accomplish this year as problems that need to be fixed. Instead, I am going to make New Year goals, things that I am attempting to achieve this year.

They look a little something like this:

• Attend the temple at least once a month. Just try and stop me satan.
• Eat better. Goodbye potato chips, fried foods, and sweets. It has been a lovely two years, but I really need to get back to the way I ate before I had a baby. It's not you, it's me.
• Read some classics. I have chosen a few I want to be sure I get to: Jane Eyre, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Anna Korenina, Sense and Sensibility, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
• Plan a trip for the family this summer before Wes starts his career.
• Learn to bake something. I will figure out the whole altitude and flour thing.
• Serve my family, neighbors, and nursery babes much more and much more graciously.
• Do pilates. My new solution to my exercising with a toddler dilemma. Pilates can be done from the comfort of my home during nap time.
• Teach Halle to share. Heaven help us.
• Be lovely.

I am going to make 2010 a fantastic year.

p.s. I must share one of Wes's goals that cracked me up: prey on the weak minded. Everything is somehow turned into a joke with this guy. I love it.