My New Year's Resolution Lists

Hi lovelies!  Hope your new year is starting off well.  I just finished writing my new year’s resolution list.  I am so excited to share with you my goals for 2016.

This year is going to be fabulous!  So fabulous I created two New Year’s Resolutions lists to help make this year – THE year!

There are so many goals I have this year on a personal and professional level.  Unfortunately, some of these goals weren’t met last year so they have been carried over to work on this year.  I’m trying to not look at them as a failure, but more as a second chance.  

This year’s personal goals focus mostly on fitness, health, organization, and spending more time with family and friends.  

This year’s blogging goals focus mostly on improving the quality and frequency of posts, updating the look, working with other bloggers, and more outreach with readers.

Here are my top 10 Personal New Year’s Resolutions:

1. Reconnect with friends, spend more time together, and build a stronger relationship with them
2. Make sure girls (Dolce and Adrina) get daily play/exercise
3. Workout at least 3x a week
4. Drink at least 3 bottles of water each day
5. Drink at least 1 less diet soda a day
6. Increase protein intake
7. Decrease Starbucks outings and fast food binges
8. Sync FB calendar to not miss friends bdays
9. Organize storage items
10. Finally set up X Box One and gaming area

Here are my top 10 Blogging New Year’s Resolutions:

1. Take and post more pictures on Social Media
2. Improve blog content and post frequency
3. Test and post reviews of at least 3 products per week
4. Connect with and increase readership numbers
5. Host more giveaways
6. Update the blog look
7. Collaborate with other bloggers/Guest posts
8. Post on additional blogging topics
9. Attend a blogging convention
10. Create email subscription

What do you think of my New Year’s Resolutions lists?  Do you make a New Year’s Resolutions list?  What goals are on your list this year?  How many things were you able to cross off your list last year?

Last Night of Junk Food?

Trying to eat all my Christmas stocking candy before tomorrow's New Year's Day resolutions kick in lol.  Still working on my official resolutions list, but I know "no junk food" will be on the list... again lol.  Maybe it will hold up this year.  Have you finished your resolutions list?  Do you make a list each year? 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  Okay I know what you're thinking – yes, it’s February 1^st not January 1^st.  I am aware that I am technically a month late from the normal tradition.

I've always been a believer in New Year Resolutions.  I think it’s important for people to want to make positive changes in their lives.  Now I don’t think you have to wait for the New Year to make changes, but I do think it is a great time to reflect on your life and determine how your life can be better or fuller.

However, I feel like the month of January is swarmed with people trying to make those changes and often get off to either a rocky start or get easily discouraged.  It’s almost like a competition – who can lose the most weight, who will be the first to see results, who will complete their resolutions list first.  It gets to the point where I think people get confused and side tracked on what their resolutions truly meant.  It shouldn't be a competition with others.  If anything it should be a competition with yourself.  Your resolutions should be a list of items that improve your life, your family’s, and your community.

So over the past few years I thought I’d try something new; I would start my New Year’s Resolutions February 1^st instead of like most of the world who starts on January 1^st.  The extra month allows me to consider and construct a more refined resolutions list.  Plus, it gives me an extra month to finish all my leftover Christmas candy.  This late New Year’s Resolutions start has helped me stay on task and focus on the positive life changes I want to make.

Here are my top 10 New Year’s Resolutions:

1.    Workout at least 3x a week

2.    Reconnect with friends, spend more time together, and build a stronger relationship with them

3.    Talk to grandparents at least once a week

4.   Volunteer at least once a month

5.    Test and post reviews of at least 3 products a week

6.   Connect with and increase readership numbers

7.    Make sure girls [Dolce and Adrina] get daily play/exercise

8.   Drink at least one less [diet] soda a day

9.   Drink at least three bottles of water a day

10. Re-learn and practice French

What are your New Year’s Resolutions?  What do you think of the late start idea?