While I usually make New Year’s Resolutions annually and never stick with them, I have a new motivation and determination this year. I have become tired of living just to get through the day, pushing my dreams and passions to the side like junk mail. I go to work waiting to leave so I can read my book or write a poem, plan a short story or make a craft. But by the time I get home, I am unmotivated to do anything more than going online and wasting time checking social media or browsing on Etsy.
I started following Amazon bestselling author Kristen Martin at some point last year despite not having read any of her books. I recently purchased and finally started reading Be Your Own #Goals, and a few weeks ago I watched her video from a few weeks ago of her daily winter morning routine with a day-in-the-life added in. During the video, she held up a colorful life planner stuffed full with loose papers in front of the camera, mentioning it was the last month that she would be writing her goals in it’s bulging depths. I know all the scribbled To Do lists in my purse-sized journal and on scraps of paper weren’t doing the trick, so I looked online until I found a planner that I loved on the inside and out and ordered it.
A few days ago, I was waiting in the Stop&Shop checkout line with my boyfriend and saw a magazine with an attractive cover that had the word “Breathe” in big white letters on a dark blue background. When I saw it, I knew it would help inspire me to accomplish some of the resolutions I jotted down at the end of my 2018 pocket-sized planner, a feeling that was confirmed when I examined the table of contents to find most, if not all, of the things I wanted to work on in the New Year.
Armed with a life planner to set daily, weekly, and monthly goals, as well as the well-being special issue of Breathe Magazine and any other motivational posts, movies, books, and so on, I hope to accomplish what I am setting out to do this year, which includes:
- writing and getting my work published
- organizing and downsizing my apartment
- eating healthier
- excersizing regularly
- trying or improving on different art forms, especially clay-sculpting
So far I have done the opposite of some of my goals, namely “eating healthier,” which was broken first thing today by wolfing down a pumpkin pancake drizzled with a heaping of cheesecake filling when I was celebrating the New Year with my boyfriend and some of our friends. But I will not let one transgression stop me from fulfilling the promises I’ve made to myself to get my life on track.
I almost made up for it by having salad tonight but I had a craving for sushi, which is still pretty healthy if you ask me. With it came a bundle of fortune cookies, and inside the first was this message, a spark of hope for the future that lies ahead of me:
Cassandra Sprague 