However, as good as I usually am about checking off the items on my lists, I have been especially bad the last two or three years about sticking with my resolutions. I think this happens mostly because my resolution lists tend to be on the long side, and I feel a little stretched and scattered throughout the year trying to make them all happen. I also usually really want the things on my list to happen or be accomplished throughout the month of January, and then real life starts to happen again and other things start to gain priority or distract me or I realize maybe those things weren’t really things I needed or wanted or had time to do after all.
I recently began working on a “bucket list” journal. I’ve kept a bucket list for five or six years now, adding things every once in a while over the years, things that I know I must do or see or have. I have never changed my mind about anything on the list (with the exception of skydiving…) and the list only gets longer. Some of the things I’ve wanted since I was five or six years old, some of the things have actually happened, or at least half-happened.
So…for 2012, I’ve decided not to make another giant list that may end up tossed aside or stay taped up on my wall to stare at me every day for a year and then make me feel guilty all over again come next December. Instead, I’m going to focus on my bucket list. I’d like to fully accomplish at least two or three of my bucket list dreams. I’m pretty excited…
(A small handful of the dreams…)
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