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I love your idea of journaling throughout the year.  What fun to read at the end of the year and it could perhaps read like a novel.  Sorry to report that I am not wired like a writer.  I tend to favor numbers.  So while I won't be journaling here are thoughts on improving myself this year (allow me to check my moleskine --- the official keeper of "the list")

Foreword: These are not resolutions but rather personal goals.  I believe the list is supposed to be short in order for it to actually happen. 

"The List" is in no particular order

1.  Attend at least two cultural events this year

(art museum, ballet, etc.)

2.  Make one new good friend

(a good friendship can lift you up in ways you never imagine)

3.  Be the party planner if need be

(don't sit around and wait for the invite because it usually doesn't come ---

make things happen | already organizing a Ladies Night on the Slopes) 

4.  Lose 5 pounds by changing lifestyle

(set exercise program, stick to it and say good-bye to my fave Diet Coke)

5.  Spending freeze!

(I am just so tired of "stuff" --- unless my work pants have a blow-out,

there is no need for another pair.  That goes for shoes, handbags

and everything else).

And my personal motto is:

I am not going to let other people bring me down. 

There you have it sister.  Short and sweet.  I think people try to focus on making external things better (i.e. a better relationship with someone, being a better parent, etc.).  But I think that if you can make yourself better either by the way you feel, look or act, then it simply becomes a domino affect on everything else.  And if I do all of the above it could bring me some extra added happiness.

Tracy

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