It’s one of the few days I truly celebrate. Despite all the holidays, days of recognition and other. This is the day that I feel really matters above all. New Years Day! (Because I’m thankful to live to see another one).
In the days approaching I normally begin to get very reflective and introspective. I think of the months past while making small assessments of the things I’ve accomplished and things I would like to change about my life. I think about personal growth, spirituality, success other. And we’ll just say that it’s a very deep time for me. The week before, I write out my goals for the new year and glance over my last years goals to see what I have accomplished. This year I’m glad to say, I accomplished a lot. Thankfully.
My 2010 list of goals were fun and creative. It included taking a bunch of fun classes; de-cluttering my home and life; adopting a better health and beauty regimen and not allowing telephone dependent friends to zap my time and energy. Looking back I did everything on my list with the exception of two things. I’m still not bilingual Spanish/English (hablo espanol, pero no muy perfecta) and I never did make it to Pole Dancing Class, lol. But overall I’m happy with my accomplishments. Even this blog is a product of my last years goal list! So, this year my goals are kind of an expansion of last years goals. Just taking things to the next level.
This year, I’m becoming very focused on HEALTH. Healthy Spirit, Healthy Mind and Healthy Body. That’s what time it is. I’ve never even looked at the word “Healthy” quite in that manner that I do now.. HEALTHY = HEAL THY. Heal thy Spirit, Heal thy Mind and Heal thy Body… cool right! It makes a lot of sense to me. So that’s where I’m at mentally. And, In the words of one of my dearest real life and FB friend Tamisha… I’m getting it right, and keeping it tight for the 2011.
Next thing is simply expanding on things that I’ve already begun. From hobbies to business ventures. Investing in self is a priority. It’s sounds simple enough, but I know plenty of people with great hobbies and talents that never invest the money or business ethics behind their crafts to make them profitable. Myself having been one of them. And a goal without a plan is just a dream. So it’s time to turn dreams into reality. I’ve accomplished a few, like moving here to NY and returning to college for film. But now it’s time to pull out one or two more of those incomplete ideas of mine and get to work. The Djing and album is a given as I’ve been progressively working on them throughout the past few months. Happily things are coming along well. But I have another abandoned project that keeps nagging at my brain, year end and year out. So that’s on my list to complete this year if only to get the monkey off my back.
Next… Travel, travel, travel. Ok so I may not be able to see the entire world, but I promised myself that I will see some of it this year. You know, get my feet on some foreign soil. And Canada, doesn’t count! I’ve been brushing upon my spanish and I want to go to take a class in Spain. It’s a great opportunity offered by my school, so why not? There’s a lot of ways to get to see other places than cruise lines and vacation packages. Also, I have a friend in Austria that’s currently looking into Djing gigs for me there. She said they have a huge hip hop scene there. And, to visit another country while getting paid is always cool. So, I’ll keep you posted with how that goes.
And lastly, but surely not least, I’ve reached out to a few friends in real life and on FB, to create a small network of women who like myself have goals for self improvement. Primarily goals of health and beauty, and idea started by Tamisha and I, for the part of encouragement and accountability. I figured it would be cool to reach out to FB friends too, because regardless of if your trying to loose weight, or simply adopt a healthier lifestyle, we could all use a little support when trying to obtain our goals. And it feels good to know that your not going through your changes alone. So I would like to send a shout out to the homegirls Tamisha, Omanda, Vicky and Aisha the “Still #1 crew” lol. I wish you all much success in accomplishing all your goals in 2011. Now let’s get it poppin’ ladies!
So overall, this year and the years to come will all be about living my life to the fullest. Hey, we only get one shot at it. And at the end of the day I’d rather be reflecting on all the things I did while I had the chance, then what I should’ve done. It’s really that simple. I stumbled onto this article about the top 11 New Years Resolutions, check it out below… And what ever you choose to do this year… just do something!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! And many.. many… more…. Talk to you in a bit, I have some sugarless cream of wheat to make (yuck! No one said this was gonna be easy, lol)
Love ya!
Indeed
A Woman of a Hip Hop Culture 
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