Letting Go

4 Jan By

I am terrible at New Year’s Resolutions. Truly terrible. For a long time, I just stopped making them.

I could do with the traditional ones. I could probably stand to lose some weight or manage money better or eat healthier, but I also don’t really feel enough passion in those areas to follow through.

This year I have seen a wonderful trend of not choosing a resolution, but instead choosing a word.

I have thought and thought about a word to embrace this year, and I think I found two.

Let Go.

This year, I think I want to focus on letting go of things that are not positive in my life.

I could choose to let go of some weight, but instead I’m going to choose to let go of my negative body talk.

I am choosing to let go of relationships that aren’t positive.

I want to let go of expectations or ideas of how things “should” be, and instead I want to embrace what they are.

I really want to try to let go of Should.

I want to let go of past hurt that I have been hanging on to, and move forward into more positive interactions.

I want to finally let go of the guilt and pain I have been holding onto from my birth experience.

I may even try, a little bit, to let go of my need for a constantly clean house. It is kind of an exhausting thing to keep up with a toddler after all.

As we move into the year 2013, I want to work on letting go of the negative in my life, and re-introducing myself to all that’s positive.

It will be my year of letting go.

What is your word for 2013? 

*Did you know that Elated Exhaustion just celebrated it’s one year anniversary? To celebrate, I am giving one of YOU a Starbucks gift card and some chocolate! The giveaway is still open through this weekend. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post. Good luck!*

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I don’t do New Year Resolutions, but apparently I have a lot of Personal Goals

5 Feb By

I am not good with the whole New Year’s Resolution thing. In the past, I would make them and not follow through, so it really was a mute tradition. Finally I learned that about myself and stopped making them. My new plan for New Year’s Resolutions? No New Year’s Resolutions! Success! I was excellent on following through on nothing. Goooo me!

I followed the don’t-make-a-resolution plan for the past few years. This year, since our son is two and he can kind of start to understand some traditions (Christmas this year was so. much. fun!) we decided to talk about New Year’s Resolutions. I asked my husband what his resolution was, and he said he wanted to start eating healthier. I laughed at him and told him that was stupid. You know, because I’m a supportive wife like that. I mean, isn’t that the most over used resolution? I think I accidentally hurt his feelings, because he didn’t seem very excited about asking me what mine was. I think I had a luke warm premonition to start blogging.

New Year’s passed, no big changes were made at our house, and life went on. Then, at the end of January, I discovered that I’m a little bit fat. And I started to so something about it. So maybe my husband’s idea wasn’t really so bad after all. And this blogging thing? I’m totally doing that, too! I still have a lot to learn, but I am working on it almost every day.

The hubs and I have also set some financial goals for ourselves. The hope is to be in a much better financial place next year, and we are actively working towards that. For him, that means pulling some over time at work, and for me that means checking the bank account daily and not going on that Starbucks run or buying the little guy that super cute shirt at Target. I have to admit, it’s a little bit hard.

For someone who doesn’t believe in the whole New Year’s Resolution thing, I sure do have a lot of long-term goals lined up in front of me.  But they are goals I am excited about, and that help me become a better person physically, emotionally, and financially. And they are realistic things that I can do in baby steps. Maybe for this year’s New Year Resolution, I will try to remember not to laugh at my husband and tell him his ideas are stupid. Or something like that. I have to leave some room for improvement, right?

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