Happy New Year!!

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I love starting a new year.. It's a time to reflect on the old year and look forward to the next. It's a time for me to set goals for the year, for myself, my family.. hubby and I set goals as a couple.

What I do not do is make resolutions. Is there a difference between goals and resolutions? .. in my mind I felt like there was so I looked up the words to find their meanings..

Goal: the object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.

Resolution: a firm decision to do or not to do something.


I see them as very different. When I set a goal.. it is something I can work towards every day. If I resolve to do something, and then I fail, it causes discouragement and I'm likely to give up on whatever it was.

An example: I made a goal last year to drink less coffee. My goal was one cup a day. Of course through the year there have been times that I had two cups or even three. Then I'd correct myself and go back to one cup a day. For health reasons this is a good choice for me. If I'd started the year saying my resolution was to only drink one cup a day, and then I had a day where I had more, I would have failed. My inclination may have been to just give up and not care. But with a goal, I can get back on track and not feel discouraged.

So as this year has come to an end I reflected on all the goals that I had worked towards, made progress, and felt a sense of accomplishment. Then I began working on new goals for 2015 knowing that if it is something important to me, I will make progress and when dealing with the bumps in the road that can happen to everyone, not all is lost.

Happy New Year to you all, and praying for a blessed 2015 for everyone!

 
 

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  1. AnonymousDecember 31, 2014 at 9:56 PM

    I use the same word, goals... it seems so much more attainable. Happy 2015!

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  2. SherryJanuary 1, 2015 at 3:09 AM

    Happy New Year !!!

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 1, 2015 at 9:12 AM

    Happy New Year!!!! I was referred to your site by Living Well on Less. I love it!!!! So much information. Really like the recipes, especially the freezer and canning. I know what I will be doing for the next few days, reading your posts from the beginning.

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