New Year Revolution

Welcome, 2013! So glad to see you at last. Your sister 2012 was good and bad, as many years are. The bad was the six months I spent in misery at my old job, dealing with a level of stress I've not experienced in a long while. The good was that I landed my dream job and have a new life as a stay-at-home worker. Unfortunately my fitness plans were collateral damage and I wound up so not where I wanted to be at the end of the year.

Hence, the title of my post. It's a new year and mere resolutions are not going to cut it this time. I have goals which I'll get into in more detail but what this year requires is a REVOLUTION! A 180 degree turnaround. A change of earth shattering portions. It means digging deep into my strengths and my faults so I can leverage the former and improve the latter. It means changing how I think about myself and the world. It means going against the grain and being the weird one, the one that doesn't go along with the crowd. It means standing up for what I believe is right and true for me and not caving to what I think will make someone else happy or at least not upset with me.

Sounds like a lot and it is. It's not without precedence in my life. I'm not the girl I used to be. If you could meet the me I was 20 or 30 years ago, you would be surprised at how different I am. I've had many "lives" in this life and I know I have one more in me.

So...what constitutes my revolution?

1. Inspiration - drawing daily from the world around me and the good things people do and say to inspire my own efforts. And doing and saying things that might inspire others as well. It's a two-way street.

2. Overcoming weakness - identify it, name it, own it, find a strategy to change it to a strength.

3. Don't break the chain - do the one thing day in and day out that will achieve my goal. Create the links of that chain and commit to not breaking it.

4. Shut up and listen. I'm not always the smartest person in the room.

5. Where there is work to do, do the work. Otherwise it is an opportunity missed.

There's more of course which certainly will be the subject of future posts. For now, today is a day to reflect and look ahead. Good things are a-coming.