The Newness

For the last four years, I've started the year with a sankalpa kind of goal.  EX:  I'm healthy.  I'm creative.  I'm writing.  I integrate these statements into my morning chats with the universe while I'm blow drying my hair.  I'm struggling to come up with a good one for 2016.  I have a big bag of mixed up ideas about things I want to do and be. Do not by any means consider these lists complete.  My mind's just a rumbling tumble weed of ideas right now.

Specific action goals:  Read more.  Do some yoga.  Get my ankle healed up as good as new.  Have fun every day.  See more movies.  Publish more cool books with the Thirdlanders.  Take some trips.  Sit on the zafu. Make some changes in the house decor.  Learn a song on the ukulele.  Join some type of social justice group or project? Knock off my addiction to screens except for this blog which is going to get a lot of love and care in 2016 because it deserves it. Take photos of hawks and frogs in the wild.

Specific Attitudinal goals: Be good enough.  Stay in the present moment.  Approach each day with curiosity. Appreciate the ordinary.  Commit to taking the next right thought, the next right action.  Treat myself and others with loving kindness.

I really can't decide what to pick.  I'm going to mull for awhile.  For now, it's time to head on in to the school site and conquer the formidable report cards.  They really can drive me crazy, so I'll just try to make peace with the report cards and appreciate the mysterious nature of our assessment system.

Happy New Year Good Friends.  I'm feeling excited about all the newness.