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So its time for New Years resolutions. I really love the yearly tradition of taking inventory of my life and thinking about how I want to improve myself and my life in the upcoming year. It feels like going into a new year with intention honors time’s passing and the fresh opportunity that a new year is. And while I definitely don’t accomplish all my resolutions (becoming a consistently  timely person is a hard hurdle for me, getting parking tickets, etc), I do manage to succeed at many of them and providing myself a new, improved “normal” with each year that passes.
Go about your resolutions any ways that feels good to you but I’ll share a bit about how me and my hubs do ours. Every year we celebrateNew Years Eve on our own with a staycation in a fun hotel. We order room service, watch movies, and do our resolutions. We have all our previous years of resolutions tucked in our respective New Years notebooks (it’s fun to refer back and see what used to challenge us 10 years ago and what continues to challenge). We write a recap of our year highlights and lows, what we listened to, watched, and read. and then we move on to the resolutions. We review how we did on the last years and write our new goals on a framable card and then share them with each other. Sometimes we have tons of resolutions, and sometimes just a few and we keep them framed on our bathroom sinks where we see them daily. So while we usually have a...