Looking to a New Year!
My New Year's Eve is going to be jam-packed with lots of very "me" things - church activities, a half marathon, and then an evening with my family playing games and eating delicious snacks. I have never been someone who lays the groundwork for personal change to coincide with the New Year. People are always waiting until the new year, or until the next Monday, or until their next birthday to make positive resolutions. Every best choice I have ever made was made and enacted at a random moment. I made the decision to start losing weight on a Friday afternoon in the middle of August. I didn't wait until the New Year to take action. However, I do like the idea of looking into a new year and imagining what it will hold. And I have always been someone who likes to verbalize my ideas and plans to others because I am more likely to make them a reality when they are more than just a thought in my head. I like to state what my intentions are, as I believe it encourage