Brand New Day.... Brand New Year !!!

I think this is where I am supposed to make a list of resolutions...

You know ... This year I am going to do xyz....... or This year I will not do xyz...... This year I will be more...xyz This year I am going to try to be less.... xyz....

The only little detail of all of this is....

I don't make.... or... Keep resolutions !

Yep... I gave up a long time ago the ol resolution thing... mainly because I felt so damn bad breaking them ( usually within the first 48 hrs of making them! ) and frankly so wants to feel so bad about something the first 48 hrs of a New Year. Right?

So I will forgo the negatively based resolutions and try to frame things in perhaps a more positive manner...

So.... I will lose weight might sound like... I will savor and appreciate my food. * while attempting to eat better

I will not be so Negative, comes out ... I will see the good in ALL things, and so on you get the idea.

I know that often it is not the things that happen to you that effect you most .. as much as how your react to what happens to you.

I have a couple of good things going for me and one is.....

I am a very grateful person. I appreciate all of my blessings and it is not lost on me to know that not everyone is so blessed..

I also have a GREAT sense of humor...

Which comes in handy when life sends you a curve ball and you sit there in the muck wondering what happened.... it comes in very handy to be able to find the humorous in a not so humorous situation.

If I did want to make a resolution it would be, to try new things. Unfortunately in my advancing years I have fallen into a bit of a rut... the same old routine feels fine.. safe even. In my younger years this would have had me running for the hills... routine of any kind would have been avoided at all costs.. While there IS something to be said for routine and the order it brings into your life... before you know it you are covered in dust from not moving to something new.

New = scary....

and frankly I haven't done scary very well. When you are young... nothing scares you... you think you are invincible! Why wouldn't you try something new?

I read a mug somewhere... (Man now I wish I had bought it.*I was probably scared to....)that said....

"What would you do... If you knew you couldn't fail?"

Isn't that the coolest phrase?......... My mind shuts down when I start to think about that....

What would I do????
Alright ... I am officially scared now... * Kidding.. sorta.

I think that may have to be my 2009 motto... I will try harder to go forward with the idea that If someone gave me the ability to do whatever I want to do... with out failure how would I be different? What would I do? Who would that make me?.....

I will give it a go.... and if all fails... I already know I have gratitude and humor waiting for me at the end of the lane.

I think I am going to try and get together with friends more often too...