Happy New Year to YOU!

Happy!  Happy!

A short post to welcome you back to my website!

Every – single – year, I privately list dozens (literally) of resolutions.

Why?  Privately?

So I won’t advertise my OCD tendencies to the world.  That’s why.

I ALWAYS have a gamut of resolutions.

Some Do’s.  Some Don’ts.

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Last year, I wanted to study for the LSAT & apply to law school.  Organize my home (really, organize the universe). Obtain a fulfilling, high-paying, part-time fundraising/marketing job close to my home.  Be the perfect wife/mom/mother-in-law.  Live on a ‘pilgrim budget’ and spend absolutely no money for the entire year.  Create a killer filing system in my home office.  Publish numerous magazine articles and get paid a fortune.  Walk 50+ miles a month with my husband.  Go to the lake house more on weekends.  Pray daily. Post 2 x a week on my website. Quit thinking bad thoughts about people who thinly disguise their art of humble-bragging.  Quit worrying.  Quit cussing at drivers who cut me off in traffic and nearly cause a multiple car crash.  Quit getting mad at contractors, service providers, & salespeople who don’t follow through on promises even when I have written documentation.  Quit expecting people to act like it’s rural America in the 1950’s.

You got the picture.

I could go on and on and on.

But I won’t bore you anymore.

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But this year is different.

I have only 1 resolution.

Live Each Day – like it was my First & Last day on earth.

Inotherwords…. enjoy today.

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As I was furiously scampering around my favorite store – TJMAXX – for stocking stuffers for my adult kids & their wife/finance’….I found a gem of a little pocket-sized book.  Just for me.

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

by Kathryn & Ross Petras.

For a mere five dollar bill & some coins for tax (original price was $9.95), I found a resource to bring my mind back to center each morning & night.

I wake up and read a few pages.

And, I read a couple of pages in bed right before turning out my bedside lamp.

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Coaches tell collegiate-bound baseball pitchers to think of each pitch as an entire game.

Focus on 1 single pitch as if it were the beginning and ending of the game. Boil down the insurmountable task of pitching 6 quality innings down to each throw.

I know this to be true, because as a mom of 2 college pitchers, I have suffered through way too many hours of private instruction from former professional players. Ughhhh!  But these ex-athletes had an attitude applicable to life in general.

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Whether – it’s this little red book…..or the Bible…. or a diary that you wrote when you were only 8 years old….or another book of valuable quotes…..  Whatever or Whoever gives you to the focus to center and calm your busy brain back to balanced is what you need for 2018.

It’s what I need.  It’s what everyone needs, really.

I am a converted believer that huge lists of do’s and don’ts written down at midnight on December 31st….will never be accomplished well until we listen and learn to what God is trying to teach and tell us each day.

Sooooooo – in 2018, I shall treat each day as a miniature lifetime.

And, if I’m fortunate and blessed….I’ll wake up tomorrow and have another lifetime to live on Wednesday.

Happy New Year to all readers.

I wish you a blessed Day (I mean a little lifetime!)