New Years Resolutions: Lessons To Live Life By And Future Goals

So begins yet another new year. Another fresh start and a chance to make those changes you promised yourself you would make this time last year but failed.
I'm not a fan of New Years Resolutions. I don't make them often and when I do they're never anything inspiring and I usually forget about them completely within the first few days, if not immediately.
Each new day can be a chance to start things fresh. The slate wiped clean after each night and the things you got wrong yesterday you can get right today. I'm trying to keep that in mind throughout this year.
Whenever I'm feeling uninspired I search for quotes. I write them down in a small notebook that I keep in my bag. The idea was that I could look at them whenever I needed a little boost but in truth once I've written them down, I don't look at them again. Still, having them close to me all the time proves to be something of a comfort. Here are the five that I've found for the beginning of this year:

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be - Ralph Waldo Emerson

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela

If you never did you should. these things are fun and fun is good. - Dr Seuss

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny - C.S. Lewis

Be the change you wish to see in the world - Ghandi

I've missed 2013. At the beginning of the year everything held so much promise, but as the end of February came and went it set the mood for the rest of the year. I shut myself away from everything and it wasn't until recently that I realised I'd missed a lot.
So this year I'm making a few changes. Obviously things will still be difficult. Grief is like a thick fog that you carry with you everywhere and I don't expect it go any time soon. In fact I don't want it to go. But I am going to try and keep myself more motivated.
Goals for the upcoming year:

• Don't avoid going out
• Create (I've taken up sketching again recently and I didn't realise how much I missed it)
• Don't spend everyday in my pyjamas on the sofa (although I am allowing myself some days of this)
• Write more
• Clear the clutter (my house is full of stuff I don't need)

There are a few more things I'd like to do this year but I wouldn't necessarily call them goals. My health has taken a little turn for the worse during the end of the year and I need tog et that sorted out. I can't afford to lose any more weight but an upcoming visit with my doctor will hopefully help all that out. Paddy and I are also continuing trying to conceive. Whether that'll happen before the end of the year though is another thing entirely.
Happy New Year Guys.