12 in 12

I can’t believe another year has come and gone! Here I am another year older, supposedly another year wiser, and DEFINETLY another year having gotten wider! In general, New Year’s Resolutions suck... somewhere between the Presidents’ Birthdays and Easter they fall away and at the end of the year, I have yet again accomplished 0 personal goals.

This year I’ve decided to SCREW the resolutions. What quicker way to feel like a stagnant, non-evolving person than to look at your past resolutions and realize most of us have accomplished NONE of them.

I read about other people doing this idea called “12 in 12”and I’ve decided to jump in with both feet. You pick 12 THINGS, do ONE of them, EVERYDAY, for ONE MONTH. The obvious theoretical result being that if you have done something every day for a month, you are more likely to adopt said thing into your routine and continue to do it indefinitely. (Ha! They’ve obviously never seen my no caffeine attempts… disastrous!) Anyway, the whys or hows don’t really matter to me, what matters is that 12 small things for a month each seems much easier than 3 large things for a year, you know? If I absolutely hate my life with/without something I’ve chosen, I don’t have to just quit and give up on a whole resolution… it’s only a month. ONE MONTH. 30 days.

So I’m wondering if anyone would like to join me in this experiment in self-accomplishment? The more people that are involved with me, the more accountable I will be, the more likely I am to succeed.

Here are my 12:

January- do 5 sessions of cardio a week
February- floss every dang day
March- do pushups every day
April- no online shopping
May- only 1 coffee a day
June-spend more time every day trying to look like a girl
July-contact an old friend every day
August-compliment at least one person a day
September-Eat at least 2 different fruits every day
October-Don’t eat after 8pm
November-get fresh air every day (this may sound funny to people that don’t work on a ship)
December-send Christmas cards instead of Christmas emails