I am always grateful for the start of a new year. This means a chance to ask for forgiveness, start over and do my best. It means goals and resolutions for the new year of life I have been blessed with. It also gives me a chance to review the past year and how I can change.
Experience have shown me that trying to do too much at one time will only cause me to get frustrated easily and thus, give up. Plus, who can keep track of so many resolutions? I for one cannot. Instead of feeling like a failure at the end of 2013, I have decided to only do one thing this year.
To stop saying I have no time.
Easier said than done? The fact is I caught myself playing Bingo on the iPad and making sure my family in Virtual Families work on their career, when I could spend a bit more time with my family. I caught myself saying I am busy to my kids and will not be able to talk to them, when all I was doing was surfing the web. I watched too much TV. I moped. I stay up way too late and drink too much coffee. I am too lazy to write in my blog or post my own links on Facebook. It is not that I don't have enough time.
What I don't have enough is energy. The vicious cycle of being stressed up at work and having too little sleep for what I am trying to accomplished, contributed to my laggard behavior. Adding to it is my not-so-fantastic diet, lack of regular exercise and sweating the small stuff attitude. Thus, lack of energy due to the lack of internal resources and draining what little of them, focused on unimportant things.
So to be able to fulfill my resolution of stop saying I have no time, I must know the things that are most important to me and make them a priority. Let the other things drop and not sweat them.
Will I make it? There is only one way to find out.
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