Buh-Bye 2012

It's good to see you in my rear view.   Although we had some amazing highs, bringing Zebdios home being the most amazing, 2012 was a tough year.   There were lots of lessons and battles and coming out of this year, I feel beaten and bruised.

I normally post a list of resolutions, but this year I decided to resolve to One Little Word.

I did what any lazy normal person would do and I read what others were doing and figured I'd find one of their words that would work for me too.

Re-Purpose

Soar

Brave

Open

Joy

Grateful

Fearless

I picked Re-Purpose, because a lot of the things on my list are going to be re purposed.   But as I was meditating on Re-Purpose, I realized that isn't quite right.   And this word popped into my head.

This was more accurate, the things that I want to accomplish this year are restorative.   I will be taking a month to focus on each item that I want to restore.   This is not to say that once the month is over, my work will be done.   It's just that work will play out in the background as I focus on the new month.

Starting in January will be my health.   Once a week, you'll get a check-in with my weight (OMG...can't believe I'm going to publicly post my weight), my blood pressure, blood sugar levels and anything else that may be pertinent.

I don't focus enough on my health, I eat whatever is convenient or fast and I consume so much garbage.   It is killing my body and I've had enough.   It's time to make changes.   I won't be dieting.   I've dieted before, the weight comes off and then bad habits creep back in.   This is about making real changes that I can stick to long term.

I wave goodbye to 2012 gladly and welcome what 2013 has to bring for me.