Here are some New Year’s Resolutions that I’d like to work on next year. I usually finish my resolutions because I set my standards really low. Just look at my physical goals and you’ll see what I mean.
Personal
I have some projects that need attention like editing our home movies and adding 500 photos to a photo album (or 2 albums. All those photos in one album would be humungous.) I do this the old fashion way of printing real photos, adding names, dates and places on the back of them and then physically sliding the photo into an album. It takes forever, guys. Plus finishing my 3 year-old’s baby scrapbook. And maybe cleaning my house more often. Maybe.
Reading
I want to read 50 books again next year. It feels like a good pace to do about one book a week. I like to read some looooong books, so I usually keep the book number itself pretty low. Besides, I barely made 50 books last year. I’m certainly not going to make it harder.
I did pretty poorly on my Dusty Bookshelf challenge last year. I hosted the darn thing and I only finished 30% of my books. I can do better than that. I’m going to work harder on that challenge and finish like half of them. At least.
Physical
I want to exercise sometimes, maybe, as long as I get to read my kindle. I’m talking like 2 or 3 times a week walking on the treadmill. I’m really trying to challenge myself here. I’m serious. I sit on my butt all day.
Now see if I had, say, a dinosaur chasing after me I would be a lot more motivated to run and stuff. But I don’t. Maybe I could read books about dinosaurs while I’m running. Course, dinosaurs scare me. I used to have this recurring nightmare about dinosaurs when I was younger (okay and as an adult sometimes, too) and for some reason dinosaurs creep me out.
My recurring nightmare, in case you’re interested, was from The Land Before Time. I was Little Foot and T-rex wanted to squash me and my pretty leaf. T-rex would chase me and I just couldn’t run fast enough….And then he’d step on my star leaf….and my dinosaur mom would die in the rain….It was awful.
Spiritual
I want to finish reading The Doctrine and Covenants this year. I started it two years ago and it’s not even that long. If I finish it, I’d like to start reading the Old Testament cover to cover mostly because I never have. You don’t think I can do it? WATCH ME. I might not finish it next year, but gosh darn it I’m going to read that whole thing.
Alejandra Salazar says
OMG. I remember watching The Land Before Time. I have a bunch of CDs from my childhood and now I can’t wait to see them again! :D
Jessica B says
I can’t watch Land Before Time anymore. Darn traumatizing childhood nightmares…. :)
Andrea (Run.Learn.Repeat.) says
That’s funny about your dinosaur nightmares. I didn’t know that about you. But I do remember that part in the movie. We watched that movie a lot. We also watched Jurassic Park, so maybe that has something to do with your fear of dinosaurs. Good goals! I need to buckle down and choose some. I have too many, so I need to narrow the list down.
Jessica B says
Don’t get me started on Jurassic Park. I couldn’t even watch Jurassic Park 3 in college and all my friends made fun of me.
Anonymous says
xD I have the Dinosaur poster on my door xDD! Before going off to exercise watch Jurassic Park, it’ll get you in the mood :3
Love the spiritual attitude x) Hope you achieve all your goals :D!