Celebrating the Small Steps

This is the time of year when goals are set for the coming year.  We decide on resolutions that will improve our lives, make us happier or bring us joy.  I've never been good at goal setting because I rarely achieve my goals.  Lately though I've decided to embrace the belief that trying matters.  My efforts have to count for something right?  I may not reach the goals that I set, but surely the steps I take and the efforts I make in the direction of those goals matter.  Celebrating the steps is important.  I'm going to be happy with celebrating the steps.

So in that spirit here are some of the things I'm going to try to do this year:

• Find a better balance between my work and personal life.
• Work towards a healthier lifestyle in my food and exercise choices.
• Cook more often than I eat out.
• Write in my journal more often.
• Blog more consistently.
• Maintain a more organized home.

I won't find a perfect balance.  I won't lose all of the pounds I'd like to lose or become a regular gym rat.  I will miss days in my journal and will likely have days and weeks between blog posts.  Acknowledging all of this from the start however, allows me to celebrate the things that I will accomplish.  

Close to two years ago I entitled this blog "It's All About the Journey" because I wanted to embrace life as a journey rather than destination.  It only makes sense that I would apply the same thinking to goal setting.  

Here's to a great 2014!  Happy New Year!