1.More water, junk SODA! Good ol' sparkling water on regular days, the unavoidable hot chocolate for breakfast and occasional tea at night. Really, its no cake and ice cream too.! (This should be -no more refined sugar but it would look really boring and i would think "deprived" so fast I might lose before the end of the month.) Too many exceptions already! So far I have broken this rule once on Mt. Dew with a threat from my best friend last Tuesday, jan-4. Is that good? ;)
2. Less reading is better than none. Reading isn't bad at all, right? But If you know me, it has been near obsessive. I can finish 3 books in a week especially if its a series! You only have to see my facebook account to know just how many I did last year, certainly more than 52! This year I must exercise discipline. Apart from the adventures ( i have a whole new library on this!) I should insert some marketing books (thats a new genre for me) Summit Chicklit are okay but no more all nighters ( i hope i won't meet the book that would break this resolve as i do have a lot on reserve right now). Discipline, discipline.
3. Sleep early, 10 pm at the latest. My morning thoughts last year were filled with dreaming of the next time I'd be back in bed. This year, I'd like to get enough snooze time -about 8 hrs amap! As I haven't got TV habits paired with a successful #2, this should be easy.
4. No more long drives at night alone. I had been living on the edge. in the past. I have no respect at all for any colored alerts; Red, Blue, whatever, they're all the same highway to me. I did have too many near accidents such as brake failure, consumed break lining, exploding tire, dried up oil, almost side sweeping, beating the red light and getting caught, wet-road-almost-accident, almost-head-on with a truck, hitting the coconut tree, hitting a power box, getting side swept by a van- I mean, I've been spared too many time last year I ought to be grateful by practicing greater care on the road this time.
2011 did welcome me with big car trouble too, what with my car still at the shop for the 3rd day now. Officially commuting for the mean time!;)
5. I'm listening. Too bad I also planned this one last year but with little or no conscious effort. I am hoping that I will be successful this time around. The point is, i am much of a talker. How will I learn anything about other people if I only love to listen to my own voice? I know most everything about me I'm sure. I must hear my friends out this year whatever it takes. I'll be arbiter.
6. Retreat. I'll have 5-7 days of solitude this year, Yes! Leaving Iloilo, i thought i'd be spiritually stronger because I'll have the means, the freedom and the time but I haven't attended 1 single meeting in almost 2 years from moving.
Floating at the surface again.
I had been happier before- actually, there was peace in the quiet and I was joyful.
Huh! Do you even know how it feels to be in a honeymoon phase with the supreme, bloggy? Probably not, but I've been there and there is just nothing quite like it. I wanna be at least in-the-presence again or I'll go mad.
I thought I have at least 10 here but it seems I have to think hard on what else..
7. Patient. That's what I'm not and with all the tears it had cost me you'd think I'd have learned. This year I'm not planning to be in crying spells again, apologizing for it because of impatience.
8. Attentive. When I'm watching TV, you don't talk to me -because I would be far away. I'm inside of the show that I don't hear you. Yes, I have every tendency of getting lost in whatever I'm engaged in, reading, dancing, singing, thinking, doing stuff-you know..that I'm totally absorbed. My hands might be working on something here but my awareness could be miles away unreachable. So I phase out much of the I plan to lessen the occurrence. No idea how that's gonna be.
9. Organized. Something else that I'm not, that's why I might sometimes become my friends' biggest push-over. So this year I am working and living on a schedule the whole 52 weeks! I'll have my reports done MONDAYS and SATURDAYS.
10. Boundaries. Absolutely not working on Sundays, my weekendns will be accounted for this year. So's my finances. 2 ATM's, 2 separate lives.
i did met the author that would break the less reading resolve, nalini singh, i read what? 10 books in january? and still at it. in addition to the obsession i certainly gained a new one in Hindi Films..can't say that i regret it. they simply fill my time making it a lot busier and keeping me up so much!
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