My 2012 calendar is filling up before the new year has even arrived. Appointments, days off from school, birthdays, vacations, and events are written down as they are scheduled. There is something neat and tidy about a new calendar and a new year. Our calendar doesn’t seem so neat and tidy and it’s not even on the refrigerator as of yet.
I also write down events on the new calendar that occur annually. For example for the month of November, I write down to start Christmas decorating the weekend after Thanksgiving. Every year I vow to start decorating earlier for this holiday season. It’s a good idea, but I’d rather shop on that weekend.
On the 2012 calendar for the month of December I wrote down Trees for Troops (Trees For Troops.org)to remind me to participate in this worthy cause. You can make an online donation, volunteer, and spread the word on making Military families Christmas merrier with a Christmas Tree.
What about those New Year Resolutions? By late February I notice resolutions are fading like the cold winds of Winter.
I am not going to make the resolution that I will totally clean and organize the contents of my house. It’s not going to happen. I’d settle for one area cleaned and organized.
Do you make one or more resolutions; live healthier, exercise; spend less, save more, volunteer, and recycle. Sounds good, right?
Last year my resolution was to accomplish one goal a week. Two months into the weekly plan it faded away, slowly, but it did. I resolved to sort out and clean out clutter on my weekly plan. Clutter is such a big word. How can you make a resolution about clutter? I did. I tried. I’ll make it my resolution again this year.
New Year’s Day is the day to begin your New Year Resolutions. What’s wrong with today I ask? Start today and make a change, make a difference, and make a plan to accomplish your resolution.
There is an area in our basement we call the gift wrap counter. The contents of this area; gift bags, tissue paper, ribbon, wrapping paper, tape, scissors, gift tags, cute little things to tie onto the gift bag, and clutter. After an hour or two of sorting, there was a shopping bag of excess to donate to a good cause I had in mind. The gift wrap area is one of my resolutions for now, not the New Year. Mainly because it needed cleaned before I can begin Christmas gift wrapping. A good reason to purge the paper. The resolution for this area is not to buy any more wrapping supplies. Not easy for me to do, but I am going to try. Try for my house, try for my wallet, and try for reducing. As in Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Reduction is my resolution.
What are your resolutions for the New Year?
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Published in The Phoenix on December 27, 2011
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I hear you about the 2012 calendar. I already know my niece is graduating from high school, and one of mine is graduating Kindergarten, plus another is receiving his First Communion. And that’s just the spring.
I just keep plugging away at the resolutions and goals because every year I do a little better and I’m more mindful of my time and energy and where to focus them.