New Year's Not-So Resolutions

As 2011 has come and gone, I decided I would not have any New Year’s resolutions for 2012.  I don’t really like them because everyone always talks about how they are going to change this and that about themselves and then never do.   I don’t deny that I have no intention of changing any existing bad habits.  I guess if they were truly bad, I might have a different opinion.  However, I do like the idea of setting goals…and maybe that’s what people should focus on rather than far-fetched resolutions.  It’s okay to have lofty goals, in fact it’s probably better because it gives you something to strive for.  So, this year I have some personal goals for myself and also a bucket list for 2012.  No, I don’t plan on kicking over any time soon, but I kind of have a check-list of the things I want to get accomplished this year.  So I sat down at work today (15 minute break if anyone from work is reading this) and made up a list.

1.        Finish MBA.  I’m almost done.  I start my last core class tonight and then have my capstone in March.  Should have this one checked off the list in May!

2.       Continue Making Working Out a Priority in My Life.  I have done a really great job (except in December and last night when I said I would never go back because I was hurting so bad) of sticking with it and going as often as I can.  I think it’s really paying off too.  Goodbye love handles!  It’s more like a speed bumps now rather than actual handles. 

3.       Take on a Wish.  I started training in May to become a wish granter with Make a Wish.  Wish granting is a lot to take on!  Unfortunately my school has taken priority over this volunteer work and I plan to accept my first wish right after I finish school.  I can hardly wait to take that on, what an honor to be able to tell these children that their dreams are coming true.  If only I could grant the wish of being healthy…but Disney World…I got this!

4.       Buy a Guitar-the one I am most excited about!  I have always been more on the artsy side of the fence.  I learned to play piano at a very young age and also played in the band in middle school.  Laugh all you want, I don’t care.  I was good at it.  I am one of those weird people that can hear music and replicate it.  I think it’s one of my most amazing traits, but I am so out of touch that I need an overhaul in music to be able to pick up a guitar.  So the goal is to first purchase it.  I realize it’s going to take me a hot minute to dust off all those beautiful notes that I have forgotten their sound, and I’m OK with that.  That’s why learning to play is not necessarily on the bucket list this year.  I have no idea how to play, but I figure with some playing on my own and some lessons I can pick it up pretty easily. 

My life has turned into, get up, get dressed, make coffee, go to work, go home, workout, dinner, bed.  While I am grateful for everything in my life, I want to spice it up.  My dreams of becoming a country music singer, have subsided just a bit, but I can’t help but still hear that little voice telling me to pick up a guitar and learn to play it.  I highly doubt that Nashville is interested in a 30ish female mediocre vocalist that can play the guitar, but I sure am.  I think it’s kind of fab.