Day Eleven

"Now is the time to set your sights high and go for it"

What a perfect fortune for the beginning of the new year (Well, almost beginning...)! I have actually been thinking on the many improvements that I need to make to myself and contemplating how to tackle them. You know, I could make all the plans that I wanted but they would be completely useless if I did not act on them. I was at Target recently and saw a book entitled "The Happiness Project". In it the author explains her experiences over the year. Each month she focused on something different, like cleanliness, energizing, developing talents, etc. Well, I would like to make plans and do them along the same lines. For January, I was thinking I would focus on cleanliness: making sure I kept my room clean, did my chores more consistently and diligently and physical cleanliness. Every month I will come up with something different to focus on. The real struggle will come with keeping up with it. But, I'm going to go for it!
In addition to personal improvement, there is a certain gent that I would really like to get to know. But every time I am around him I suddenly have nothing to say and I just don't know what to do! I suppose it is because I am all twitterpated and such...I don't know...Anyway, I want to develop a friendship with him and I am no longer going to be afraid, I'm just going to put myself out there! I'm just going to go for it! I have nothing to lose and everything to gain! I think it's interesting how formidable some things may seem, like writing a research paper, jumping back into the dating scene after having your heart broken, moving to some place new, or undergoing surgery. However, when you go through it, you realize it was not at all as bad as you thought it would be and you discover that the thing that made it so frightful was yourself. Maybe what we personally percieve is what we will see. So, how would our lives changed if we anticipated joyfully? How much more brave, strong, and comfortable would we be? What would happen if we no longer percieved in fear? Try it and anticipate it joyfully! As my grandmother would say, "If you can't anticipate joyfully, then don't anticipate at all!"