So here it goes, by December 31, 2013 I want to:
--Work: Promoted to AP/Field work at WH and Capitol Hill
--Life: Reduce remaining student loans by a third/Maintain regular exercise routine/Lose 36 lbs
--Skating: Pass Prejuvenile moves and preliminary freestyle by April 2013/Pass Juvenile moves/Axel?/Compete three times
This
will be my year. My year to take control and not let anything stop me.
Comfortable and easy won't get me anywhere I have to fight for what I
want and take that chance. That same chance I took 16 months ago when I
moved down here not really sure what I was getting myself into. The status quo
has got to go. No more accepting life as it comes, it's time for me to
change it. There is no in between. No risk, no reward, so here it goes,
bring it on 2013!
Here's last year's post for the New Year. Was I successful? Depends on how you measure success.
--Work: I have been doing AP work and I have gotten in the field. Was I promoted to AP? No not yet.
--Life: Student loans are almost down to 4 digits, is that a third? No probably not. But I can say yes on the regular exercise routine...now I feel bad if I don't make it to the gym.
--Skating: Took a bit of a back seat this year. And while yes I competed three times this year, two were skating and one was ballroom.
So here goes goals by December 31, 2014:
--Work: Find something that makes me happy. Something that makes me want to work the hours I do and the days I do. Something that makes the sacrifice worthwhile.
--Life: Eliminate the last student loan. Lofty goal yes, but definitely doable. Continue the regular exercise routine. Be active in my own life, don't let things pass by.
--Skating: I so want to compete at Adult Nationals if not 2014 definitely 2015..which is sort of a continuation of the previous statement, being active in my own life and actually take a vacation. The horrors I know! Find the passion again. Skate for the little girl in that magical moment who first stepped on the ice.
--Ballroom: This was my lifeline this past year. This was everything I needed but didn't know it at the time. It seems like such a strange thing..I crave control and I can't have any of that here. Yet it was so paradoxically perfect. Nothing was more perfect than a Tuesday night in the studio...what am I going to do now that they closed...
I sort of fell into the resolution trap last year even though I didn't mean too...this year is about living the best life. There really aren't tangible goals that can be written down to achieve that. It needs to be a year of living life for me and what I want..not what other people think I should be doing, being an active participant in this game of life.
This is my time and my story..."Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one."
