I’ve been working on this list for quite some time now, thinking hard about what I want to accomplish in the upcoming year. Like most, my list has a few things on it that are the typical “New Year’s Resolution” which you will read shortly. For many years, I’ve had the same things on my list of goals, but I’ve never accomplished any of them completely and had to ask myself why – what’s holding me back? The answer…ME! I am the only person standing in the way of my success and it’s all because of my own excuses, which leads me to my first New Year’s Resolution for 2012:
Start following my dreams and stop making excuses!
There are so many things that I have said I want to do over the last five or six years and I haven’t done them because I didn’t have the money or didn’t have the money. I would say those are the two primary excuses that I seem to make for anything and everything! Photography is my “dream job” – taking pictures of kids and weddings is what I’ve wanted to do since I worked for an incredible photographer in college. Everyone tells me I can teach myself, but I’d rather take classes and learn everything I can about the art. Since I’ve been working on ships, I use that as my excuse for not taking classes. Well – I’m determined to start taking some online classes to educate myself and start taking some better photos – cause I have no idea what I’m doing when I take them now!
I love Zumba and want to teach it on ships – just for fun to the crew, but I’ve been saying it for 3 years now. I’m going to take the certification course this year!
I want to take dance classes again – I miss it! There are classes all over the country where I can just take one class at a time for fun and exercise. I’m going to set aside my fear of the unknown and do it.
I’ve always wanted to take a Bartending class and I think it’s because of teaching the mixology classes on board that I’ve always wanted to take a class and learn all the fun stuff and mixing drinks the right way (not just pouring ‘til the glass is full :)!) I’ve learned so much while working on ships, but would love to have it as a backup job when I’m home and I just need to learn how to do it! What’s stopping me…NOTHING THIS YEAR!
The New Year’s Resolution on everyone’s list….lose weight!
I need to lose 30 more pounds. The only person holding me back from that? ME. I am my own worst enemy and do my own self-sabatoge. Not anymore.
Wash my mouth out with soap.
My Mom did it to me – only once – as a kid…but I obviously didn’t learn much because I’ve only gotten worse! I need to get better with my language. It is not easy in the industry that I work in because we definitely talk like sailors, but I would like to clean it up a bit.
Be better with money.
I started working on this over the course of the last year, but I’d like to get even better with it! I need to educate myself on a retirement plan and all the ins and outs of investing. My personal want/need/goal of the year is to purchase a condo in the Orlando area as well as one in the Philippines and rent them out when I’m not there. I hope and pray this one works out – I know it’s lofty, but I think I can do it and succeed!
Don’t sweat the small stuff.
Simple enough. A work in progress. Letting the little things roll of my back and not worrying about things that, in the end, won’t matter.
Be present & live in the moment.
The last year has been a tough one, but I’ve made it through and I’ve come out on top! I want to enjoy every person, place and activity that I can!
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
Trust myself.
Listen to my heart, my head and my instincts and TRUST that they’re telling me the right thing. I seem to trust everybody but myself.
Share my passion.
I’ve posted this before – but it has been my mantra since the day I found it. It sums all of my goals and resolutions up perfectly.
Here’s me at the end of 2011…let’s see what 2012 brings, folks!
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