I sat down yesterday to write out some goals for this year. (One of which is to be more timely with things, but clearly that isn’t getting off to a great start, considering I didn’t even write my goals out until after 2012 had started…) I pulled out my goals from last year, blinked a few times as I read, and put the notebook down in despair. I hadn’t even checked off half of them. I felt like I was a balloon that had just been deflated, the kind where the balloon is flying around the room sputtering as the air shoots out until it finally plops down on the ground, all the air gone. It didn’t feel so great.
In fact, it was exactly what I was worried about when I wrote those goals down. That I would fail at them. That I would, essentially, lose. At life or something. (Dramatic, I know.) I almost put the notebook away without writing down new goals.
Then I started to think about the passed year. Yes, I did a lot of things wrong. But there were also a lot of things I did right. Goals I did accomplish, both ones I wrote down, and ones I didn’t even know I had until I’d done them. Last year was a good year. To complain about the things I didn’t do would be an injustice to the things I did do. Basically, I had to decide between looking at the glass half empty or half full. Half full is a lot more fun, if you ask me.
So I wrote 2012 goals. And when the end of 2012 rolls around, I know I’ll be able to look back on the goals I checked off, add some new ones, and be proud of my accomplishments. After all, what’s life without a bit of improvise? It’d be boring if we always got exactly what we wanted ;)
Here’s to the goals you accomplished last year, the ones you’re making for this year, and the ones you don’t even know you have yet. Happy New Year, everyone!!
