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:
- Skydive. Status? Did that. Yay. You can read about it here: Llamas on the Runway Whaaa?
- Learn to speak Spanish fluently. Status? No comprende.
- Overcome my fear of math. Status? 2 + 2 = I STILL HATE MATH!!! WHAT KIND OF GOAL IS THIS ANYWAY???
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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