Welcome to 2019

Good morning, 2019, and welcome to the world!

It’s been some time since I’ve written…

Some days, I feel like my life since my last post has been purposeful and moving towards a goal. Other days, I feel as though I’ve floated along without direction, without a specified purpose. Some days it feels as though I’ve lost myself. It’s not that I want to find myself, it’s more like I want to discover who I’ve become.

The past two years have been exhilarating, adventurous, difficult, and eye-opening. I’ve tried like hell to say yes to new experiences and to meet new people. I’ve succeeded in many ways. In other ways, I still have work today. I’d like make year three of living in the desert a purposeful one. I’d like to make it a year and a place where I continue having adventures and getting ‘out there’. Yet, I also have a yearning to make it a year where I get back to a practice of engaging in more thoughtful and introspective practices.

I seek to make 2019 a year of thought AND deed. I seek to make 2019 a year in which I care for my mind and my body. To do that, I must be purposeful in my choice of activities. I need to act with intention, and I need to find a discipline within myself to begin. To some extent, I need to function with a No Excuses mentality. And I need to set goals.

There are some things I know I’d like to accomplish…others, I anticipate finding along the way. Among those that I know:

•          Read more books, at least one per month
•          Exercise at least 4 times per week
•          Lose weight
•          Begin writing again, at least once per week
•          Participate in some creative endeavor at least once per week
•          Actively engage in the community

For me, the personal goals of exercise and weight loss are top priority. My work towards some of these goals will be public, others will be private. I will use this blog, in part, to focus on attaining these goals. But it will also be the work of getting back to writing.

I know I will face challenges. I also know that the biggest challenge will be to overcome my own inertia. I don’t know how to overcome that except to purposefully create a habit and use the planning skills I have developed over the years to problem solve. I purchased a 2019 planner a few weeks ago that I’ll use to help plan and track. I will spend time at the gym later today, and I will engage in a (modified) green smoothie cleanse to get started. I hope that you will join me in my journey.