Goodbye 2013

I recently read that only 8% of people actually achieve all of their New Year’s Resolutions.  With respect to 2013, I’m a proud member of the 92% slackers out there.  Let’s hear it for being in the majority!  (Well…I did make progress on a few goals.)

My goals for 2013 were:

  1. Skydive.  Status?  Did that.  Yay.  You can read about it here:  Llamas on the Runway Whaaa?

    Skydiving OMG!
    Skydiving OMG!
  2. Learn to speak Spanish fluently.  Status?  No comprende.
  3. Overcome my fear of math.  Status?  2 + 2 = I STILL HATE MATH!!!  WHAT KIND OF GOAL IS THIS ANYWAY???
  4. Cook “clean eating” meals for my family all year.  Status?  Sorta.  Baby steps, right?  I pack very healthy lunches for my kids now, and one child actually eats them.  I have introduced new fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and protein sources in various formats with (very) limited success to my family.  You can read about my efforts here:  Bribery, empathy, and a goldfish.

    Rylee and Henry making pesto
    Rylee and Henry making pesto
  5. Use up all the moisturizer in my house.  Not even close.  I started letting my four-year-old play with the moisturizer bottles during bath time, and even he can’t use them all up!
  6. Come in 5th place in a figure competition.  Status?  That so did not happen.  But I did have a lot of fun doing show prep with my team, and I also learned how to do an unassisted chin up in the process.  Also, I dyed my hair red for the show.

    Muscular Development Online Magazine
    Muscular Development Online Magazine
  7. Do a Spartan Run.  Status?  I totally chickened out.  I’m really afraid I’m going to twist my ankle while crazy people hose me down and throw mud at me.
  8. Do a Zombie Run.  Status?  My husband had a work emergency, so we weren’t able to do it.

I think I bombed on a lot of those goals because they weren’t really fun to me; they were stuff I felt like I “should” be doing.  I mean, seriously, math?  Really?  And I think if my goal were to just “do a figure competition” without attaching the “win a prize” portion to it, I could have crossed it off my list as a happy accomplishment instead of an epic fail.  So, I’ll have to keep this stuff in mind as I write up my 2014 goals.

How about you?  How did you do on your 2013 goals?

Lisa ;)

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