breakinglight11 | Resolutions for 2013 (Reply)

The ten things I want to accomplish this year:

1. Make use of the master's degree I will be earning in May to make some significant professional improvement. I'm not sure what this is going to mean yet, but I will be graduating this year and I am determined to utilize my new credentials to make a step forward professionally.

2. Write at least one more full-length play. I have a couple of ideas right now, and I need to have them to submit around. By this time next year I want at least one more piece that I am proud of.

3. Improve my sewing skills. I want to be at the point where I can capably make things I want to use by this time next year. I've made progress, but I'm not where I want to be yet.

4. Improve my proficiency with ballet. I love the art and it makes me feel strong and centered.

5. Develop a system of stress management. The depression hasn't been as bad lately, but tension and stress has become more of a particular problem. I need to figure out how to keep feeling good about myself while maintaining my peace and serenity.

6. Get my diet and workout plan straightened out. My eating habit are pretty messed up right now, and I know I always feel so much better when I'm in healthy habits.

7. Revise my budget. I'm pretty good about staying on top of it, but lately I've had a number of new expenses come into my life, and I need to rework things to accommodate them.

And those that I must always, always work on:

8. Be good to my parents and spend as much time with them as possible. This is more important than it's ever been.

9. Keep working on being a kinder person, keeping my temper, and being less judgmental.

10. Learn how to be hopeful. When we come down to it, it's all we really have.

There are some other things I want to happen this year too, but as for resolutions, I'm sticking to things I have control over. There's plenty that I'll just have to do my best, and leave it in God's hands.