Being Intentional

The first couple months of a new year always holds so much potential and leaves me drawing up a to-do list and creating new goals.  Today is no different.  And while I'm drinking my tea and blogging and trying to decide what I want to get out of this month, I can't help but think of past months where I've had such high expectations that I did not even come close to reaching.

And I can't help but think it was because I wasn't intentional. 

It's easy to say I want to be a good wife, or a good mom,  or a good blogger, or a good employee.  It's easy to say I want to read more, or be outside more, or make more time for whatever I need to make more time for.  But actually doing it is a completely different story.

Sometimes I feel like getting excited about life and making new goals and dreaming new dreams and writing them all down is enough. 

But it's not.

It's easy to have dreams.

It's hard to follow them.

This year I am going to be intentional.

I'm going to be intentional about living my life.  I'm going to be intentional about following my dreams and goals.  I am going to wake up with a purpose and follow that purpose all throughout the day, so that the last day of the year looks a lot like the I hoped it would on the first.

Be Happy

Because life is too short to be unhappy. 

So go see a movie. 

Eat some cake. 

Say you're sorry if you need to. 

Take a brisk winter walk.

Tell someone you love them. 

If it makes you happy, don't wait.

Just do it. 

 

Monday

Happy Monday, you beautiful people!

Today is a brand new day full of so much potential.

It has the ability to be a starting point of something new, if you want it to be.

Today can be the day you look back on and realize that was the day you started something really great.

It can be a day full of memories.

A day of hard work.

A day of blissful "winter blues" laziness.

A day of quiet.

A day of dreams.

Today can be anything you want it to be.

Don't let that kind of potential pass by you!  Make today into whatever you want it to be. 

Live and work and laugh and relax and dream and explore and be happy today.

Just because you can.