It's taken me awhile to embrace 2014 fully. I needed the post-holiday hangover to wear off first, I needed to regain my strength after succumbing with wild abandon to the Christmas mania. Each year I promise it will be different, and each year it's the same. Not sure if I'm just doped up on egg nog and sugar cookies, or there is really some magic Christmas dust in the air that falls down upon me and turns me into a walking, talking, Martha-Stewart-Wanna-Be-Present-Buying-Card-Making-EggNogg Latte drinking- FREAK for 2 solid months. I'm bracing myself already for next year because there's no stopping it.
BUT, I digress....this is all about 2014. Here's what I'll say, I'm excited. It's going to be a good year, I can feel it. First, I'm pretty jazzed about the clothes for spring, and that helps (Prairie Underground comes Monday and I can't wait), and I'm pretty excited about my finely honed, razor focused New Year's Resolutions that are going to be actualized and make me a healthier, more well rounded and happier person (tall order). I should have put "write on blog more", but luckily for everyone, I didn't. Instead, I broke it down to three very clear, very specific things that I'm going to make happen. I'll share, just because.
1. Sleep more. The recommended 8 hours might be unrealistic, but I'm shooting for a less sleep deprived existence, one that doesn't necessitate 3 cups of coffee just to unglue my eyes. To this end I've been wearing for the last two weeks the Jawbone bracelet, which is ingenious. It tracks your sleep, how many steps you take, and all kinds of other stuff if you have the patience to figure it out. All I really care about is the sleep aspect, and I have to say, this thing is pretty awesome. The other night when my beloved and highly annoying dog woke up at 2:30 a.m. pretending to need to be let outside, my trusty Jawbone tracked the break in sleep, the time awake, and the painful number of minutes it took me to actually fall back to sleep. It even breaks down the light and deep sleep cycles. If nothing else it reminds me on a daily, and weekly (nifty reminder emails), just how many days I'm NOT meeting my sleep goals. I think just being reminded that I'm sucking, helps me suck less.
2. Have more sex. Goal, 3-4 times a week. Yes, you heard me right. I'll say no more on this subject (ok, maybe just a little more)....all the relationship books say that number is in the ballpark of where you need to be to have a healthy intimate relationship with your partner. Not such an easy goal, let me tell you (and if you think it's easy and have 4 kids, a job, and a dog, please write and tell me your secret, better yet, sell it for a million bucks). This is a resolution that was NOT shared with my husband, #1 because god forbid he holds me to it all year long, and #2, what if I need to meet my goals with someone other than my husband? Ha, ha, just a joke. Really, it was. :-)
3. Say YES more. This started as a "say yes more to my kids", and has morphed to a "say yes more to myself too" resolution. Say yes more to my kids is because I have to face the fact that my controlling nature forces me to say "no" sometimes for no good reason. So I'm trying to pick my battles, and just let all the lesser things go. Say yes to myself goes for all those things that I tend to neglect and/or keep from myself out of a sense of some responsibility for efficiency. I.E..."no I can't stop and get a manicure, I've got stuff to do", "no I can't have a long lunch, I should be working", "no I can't take a nap, I've got laundry to do." My life is micro-organized, there's no free minutes, no free hours...but mostly because I say "no" to giving myself free minutes and hours. This is a hard resolution for me, but I'm really going to work at it.
I've got no goals that are clothes related...darn, that would be cool if I did. I can't really make a resolution out of buying more Raw Earth and Margaret O'Leary for myself can I? Or CAN I?? Maybe that's a "yes you can" thing----I'll tack that on to resolution #3 :-).
I'm very aware as I start out this year how fortunate I feel that I'm surrounded by such inspirational, funny, and intelligent women...that bring to the table their honesty, loyalty and humor---all making life so much better. I really believe that like energy attracts like energy, and that my life, my business, my friends, our customers, everything, is a result of the energy we put out and the energy that attracts. Hard to put into sufficient words, but I think most of you will just get it, even without more elegant phrasing. I'll leave it with a thank you, a deep and heartfelt thank you.
Happy New Year (24 days late)!
oxox, Signed, ME {lv}
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