New Year's Resolutions for 2007!!!

My New Year's Resolutions:

#1) Get back to meditating at least every other day. Since the holidays, I've not really done that and I miss it. Meditating makes me a much easier, calmer, happier and more peaceful person. Keeping my focus on God is probably my #1 resolution for the New Year, b/c imho, it is through Him and with Him that everything else is possible and glorious!

#2) MAINTAIN BALANCE! Balance my time, relationships, and all of that. Bring the focus back to what makes me happiest and most joyful, even those things that I occasionally need to be selfish about.

#3) Honestly, make my relationship with my boyfriend, Colin, work. I've been very blessed to have found a great man who came into my life when I least expected it, and while there will be hard times and niether of us is perfect, I really want to this work out for us. It's not that hard, actually, we get along very well, but my point is that I'm going to do everything I personally can (short of being stupid) to make this relationship with him continue to grow and flourish in love and beauty! I'm a grown woman, and putting my romantic relationship first is not a bad thing anymore, it's supposed to be that way--to a point. I won't forget who I am, or my family or friends, but in the past, I've put EVERYTHING else before the man in my life which is probably one of the reasons some aren't here anymore...that's okay though, b/c I found the one who is right for me!!! Thank God! So, yes, continue growing in love and trust with my boyfriend!

#4) Set aside time to write, regardless of what is I'm writing--journal entries, poems, etc...

#5) Set aside specific time to spend with my mom. Like, once a week make a date with her to have lunch or make dinner to catch a movie.....I have school, friends, a boyfriend, my time and everything else, but my mother is still a part of my life and I want her to remain so. Just because I'm a woman in a relationship doesn't mean I need to disregard my mother (and thank goodness no one's asked me too), after all, she is the reason I'm still here (her and God)...so my goal for this year with my mother is to get to know her woman to woman--as friends--not just as her daughter. I've grown up so much in the last year, but I sort of feel like the last six months or so she's missed. I know I'll be moving out in the next year or so, so while I'm still living with her, I'd like to spend a bit more time with her.

#6) See my sisters in Oregon, take my boyfriend home to Reno to meet my family and travel to a place I've never been before...I don't care really where, just some place (safe) that I've not been. (Hawaii sounds good!)

#7) Get at least half way out of debt by paying off at least 2 credit cards and half of my balance on the other one! Save more! I did a pretty good job of that in 2006, so I want to continue it, it's a great feeling!

#8) Continue to be happy and healthy and safegaurd those things with all my might! Continue being peaceful and grateful and in love with my life--because I really am. Going into 2007, I can say that I am now the happiest I've ever been--and everything is falling into place, I hope and pray that continues--but I know that's up to me. As Naomi Judd once said, "the best way to predict the future is to create it" so hopefully, I'll create a happy, healthy future with my man, my family and my friends!

#9) Gain weight, I know, most people want to LOSE it, but all of my life I've been underweight, and while I'm glad I'm on this side of that battle, it woudln't hurt to gain a few pounds. Now, how I do that without jeporadizing my health, I'm not sure, but we'll see!!!

I'm looking very foward to this year and all of the wonderful (and even trying) times it'll bring me!!!

I wish all of you the happiest and healthiest 2007!!!

God Bless!

In Light N' Love,
-Sarah Liz :)