Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.
- ANON
“The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.” – Wendell Berry
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." -Fred Sero
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. -Brooks Atkinson
Okay so here are my
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS!!(as of now)
Take more pictures
I decided I should just take my camera with me everywhere. Not only will that make me take more pictures, I’ll never have to miss a “Kodak moment”. As cheesy as it is I don’t think you really realize how many opportunities for pictures you miss until you start carrying you’re camera with you. Even if it’s just a pretty sunset or a really random photo op with friends, you can never really regret capturing a moment but you can regret not having the opportunity to capture it.
Photography is the beauty of life, captured. - Tara Chisholm
Everything around us, ourselves included, is in constant change. Photography is our means of capturing now - and to remember where we've come from. - Amanda Van
Time will never stand still and those moments that bring us such joy become memories in an instant. To capture such a moment and record it forever is truly monumental. - Joshua Atticks
Do yoga every morning
I’ve always wanted to do yoga and what a better time to start now! Plus, I have no 8ams this semester so I’m going to pretend I do and get up early and do yoga and eat a well balanced breakfast. Maybe if I start of the day well I’ll be more productive during the day! And yoga is good for you! I can improve my flexibility, strength, posture, and reduce stress. So if either of you would like to come over and join me I would love company! We can buy yoga mats and be completely legit yoga-doers.
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what
cannot be cured. -B.K.S. Iyengar
Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. -Carol Krucoff
Spend more time with friends and family
So a lot of times I get tired and lazy and sacrifice hanging out with friends for lying on the couch or sitting on facebook. SO, this year I’m going to try to spend more time with friends and keep in better contact with everyone.
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The family is a haven in a heartless world." – Christopher Lasch
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. -Lois Wyse
Use my non-existent money more wisely
I’m going to try my best to buy nice things that I really need/want instead of buying cheap sale things that I’ll want to get rid of after I wear them once. Also, I’m going to try to not eat out as much. I think I spend 90% of my money at McDonalds, Taco Bell, Steak and Shake, and Starbucks which for one is not a very classy thing to do and it is also severely hurting my banking account.
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. - Unknown wise person
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship – Benjamin Franklin
Learn something new and beneficial each week
Go to the art museum, learn a new star constellation, go to the Kinsey Institute, go to a new kind of workout class at the SRSC, try ethnic food, etc. Anyway I want to start a journal of the new stuff I learn each week and take a picture of each thing and then by the end of the year I’ll feel like a genius and we’ll have good pictures of all the new fun stuff we experienced!
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Ghandi
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Volunteer more & work at different kinds of projects
So obviously I volunteer because of APO, but last semester, as with everything else, I kind of did the bare minimum. I’m going to try to volunteer as much as I can without taking too much time away from my schoolwork or spending time with friends. (Or all of my friends could just join APO. ***hint hint RACHEL) Even though I dread going to volunteer after a long day of classes I feel so much better afterwards and it’s a nice break from school to do something good for other people as cheesy as that sounds.
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal." – Alber t Pine
Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart. -Elizabeth Andrew
The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. -Leo Rosten
Quit drinking as much
Soooo, as we might know by now I have a bit of a blackout issue. This year I will not black out. I will drink casually at parties but WILL NOT be drunk. Oh, and no more shots. Ever. Unless there are extreme circumstances. I will drink wine, champagne, and mixed drinks only! Being drunk just leads to problems with boys, problems with my liver, problems with people judging you, and problems with the entire next day. Basically, drinking heavily is never worth it. So I’m just going to avoid it.
"Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future." – Dale Turner
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I'm having a good time. - Nancy Astor
Blog more obviii
I’m going to try and blog every day. In my blogging I will talk about my progress in achieving my goals for the year and I will add motivational quotes and pictures to inspire both of you!
Your blog is your unedited version of yourself. – Lorelle
“Blogging is the new poetry.” – Author Unknown
Try harder in school and stay on top of my work
A lot of times last semester I did the least amount of work I needed to to get by. This semester and the rest of the year I’m going to work ahead and actually UNDERSTAND what I am learning instead of just cramming right before the test for a class and having mental breakdowns.
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift” - Steve Prefontaine
“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”
William Arthur Ward
Dance more
Dance was completely my life from like 1st grade to senior year in high school. Basically all of my friends were dancers and it was my obsession. Once I got to IU I stopped really dancing because obviously I wasn’t taking classes at my dance studio and I wasn’t on dance team anymore. Soooo, my new goal is to keep stretching and keep dancing when I can so that hopefully next school year I can try out for dance team because I really really really miss it!
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."-Martha Graham
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. - Anonymous
