2011 will only have greener grass if we all start watering!

It is the 2^nd of December, a Sunday….. the way I see it- not a good day to start a resolution. Haha. So I have just stuffed my face with scones, baked yesterday, covered in butter, strawberry jam, and cream. Can you imagine anything better.  

I really should have taken a picture before i got into it.

Yesterday I had a thought, that literally consumed me for hours.

How can ONE day’s DATE have such a evolutionary effect on everyone?

I have read so many comments from my friends, and heard so many people say how they look forward to the year coming to an end, and a new one starting. As if the fairies come out and magically make everything brand new.My question is what will be different this year? Will the year 2011 come with added benefits for being so loyal (merely by still being here) for the last 29 years?

No! Only we will! It is our attitude!

So, why do we wait until the 1^st of Jan to change it? Why not change it when we realise there is a problem? When we realise that we are not so happy, find things to make us happy! Only we can do that. And although my princess tries desperately hard to convince me that fairies do come in at odd times and make things happen- we know in truth, grass is not greener unless you water it, weed it, and give it sun!

When I moved house, I found a list in my underwear drawer mentioning all the terrible things that had happened this past year and last. Considering it was only September (when I found it)- the list was quite long. What was I thinking? Who tries to remember all the bad that has happened? Where was my list of good things? In fact, I battle to even come up with a list- yet I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW  that good things have happened. (Maybe that is one of the reasons why I have started this blog!!)

2011. Here is to you!

I don’t have any resolutions this year. (Perhaps to stop writing lists of all the things that have gone wrong should be one.)In fact, I never really make any.

I would rather try and form better habits this year! I will work on my bucket list, putting goals and plans in place to work through my list with excitement. To “add to”, and to “tick off as done” is also essential. Part of those habits will be working through my own happiness project, which is on my bucket list. Yah!! We all long to be happy, so we need to find those things that make us happy! We need to start watering that grass!

I look forward to starting, I look forward to listing, and I look forward to the watering!!!

Although I am trying to be super-positive, there are four things that I am really NOT looking forward to. (I think that if I am honest about my thoughts, the bad ones, I can be honest about the good ones too. Right?) They are no different to January 2010, and I suppose that next year this time- I may send you back to this post…… See this as the initial weeding.

1. Taking the Christmas decorations down! (I have managed to put trinkets throughout the entire house……yah!) (Remember the sarcastic tone we have spoken about?)
2. Waking up early again! (It’s work again, school again and life- again, but i could do with lazy mornings.)
3. Losing the 3 kilograms that December forced into me. (I think that may take more time to lose then it was to gain.)
4. Transferring the contents on my daily diary from 2010 to my new daily dairy 2011. (My name, my contacts, important information, and the list of things that were still being written down in December that I never got to actually DOING.)

  

But today is still Sunday, and I don’t need to start on any of those until next week!! (My 1^st of January is only starting on the 3^rd.) Monday I can start the weeding, then the watering and finding sunshine…… I will have greener grass!!   

Anything you need to weed out, before you start the watering?

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