Happy New Year 2012

I decided to keep the name of my blog.  I thought for a moment today to change it to something totally different than the options I gave because it was a new year and hopefully a new day for me, but.... For now its sticks.

In accordance with my posts about allternatives to new years resolutions, here is what I've decided to do:

Miracles: 

A.  a temple marriage for me

B.  A family (babies) 

C.  My nephews and niece who have lost their way to gain a testimony if lost and reorder their life in accordance to gospel truth.  AKA:  get their butts to church! 

D.  Get out of debt completely!

I remind the reader and myself that these are suppose to be miracles- the impossible!

A Word:  "Seek"

A Phrase: If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, I seek after these things.

2011 Accomplishments: 

obtained a job within 2 weeks of moving to Nampa Idaho

obtained a much higher paying job in Twin Falls after looking for months

Made friends with neighbors in Nampa

Took a family to church and helped them learn about the gospel and even did a little marriage counseling 

Added a temple to my list of one visited and done work in

Went to a 'Pattern Changing" class and learned about boundaries and rights

Shopped at a lot of thrift stores 

Kept my dogs Parker and Coco

Started reading The Book of Mormon again

Continue to maintain long distance friendships 

Continue to offer help to others via knowledge and random acts of kindness as they come up.
Participated in The Book of Mormon Forum

Maybe it doesn't sound so unique or special, but it is what it is and who knows maybe to the Lord some of them were great things and I'll see that in the next life.

Thank you to all my friends and family who so lovingly helped me with emotional support and money over the last 8 months.  I couldn't of done it with out you! 

The tragedy of life doesn't lie 

in not reaching your goal.  

The tragedy lies in having 

no goal to reach. 

-Benjamin Mays  

“The Book of Mormon is the best guide to learn how well we are doing and how to do better. . . . The doctrine and the valiant examples in that book will lift, guide, and embolden you.  . 

- Henry B. Eyring

Resolutions or Miracles?

Here's another idea to replace resolutions.  Write down miracles you'd like to have happen, the totally impossible ones.  For this idea and testimony that it works go here. 
Please go there- you won't be disappointed!

More "anti-resolution" articles: 


1. New Year’s Resolutions: Recycling the Trivial? Or Reaching for the Nobler?

http://www.ldsmag.com/church/living/article/9144?ac=1

2. Why so few Latter-day saints make resolutions. http://ldsmag.com/component/zine/article/458?ac=1
This is the article that started it all!  Here's the logic =

"Because we've been doing it in increments, all year every year. Ours is a religion that urges constant introspection, constant course adjustments, and weekly repentance so we can take the sacrament and be washed clean all over again. Waiting until January 1 st to modify our actions sounds almost ludicrous, if not downright impossible."

New Years Resolution Anyone?

I never make new years resolutions.

When others would talk of them I would feel guilty, but not anymore.  I just don't give them the meaning others do and thus they loose any reaction- positive or negative from me.  If people are successful or not - it wasn't because of the resolution- it wasn't.  It was because they wanted it really badly or they didn't want it bad enough. 

 But I have learned about other ways to work on making oneself better.  Check out some of these ideas.

1.  Come up with a word to focus on for the year.  You can read about it here.
Then click on the title of the blog and you can see what word she chose for this year.

2. Look back over your life and make a list of things you did right this year! Read about "setting goals backwards"  here!

3. No link for this one, but it comes from Annette Bowen.  She comes up with a scripture or a quote or phase to focus on.  One year I think it was something like "take joy" or "find joy" so every situation she was in she'd look for the joy. 

4.  If you're going to make a resolution, then you should know about this idea of quarterly check ups.  See about that here. 

Happy New Year!

If you're anything like me, you don't like resolutions. They are dumb and they never work. But there are alternatives to them. Here are a few I've found:

1. Have a scripture or quote for the year that you keep in your head and focus on that during all the good and bad times that will come. Idea from Annette Bowen.

2. Pray for a miracle and then see what happens! Idea from here: http://womeninthescriptures.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-year-miracles.html

3. Pick a word to focus on for the year. Idea from here: http://sherriejohnson.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-word-of-year-time.html

I'm not sure which one I will do. What will you do?