The Reset Button

Welcome 2009. You are shiny and bright and new. A big arbitrary reset button has been pushed and it is time to stop, reflect on what has gone before, and plan for what is to come.

And so here I am, Jennie Hyatt, making some public statements about what I hope for myself for this new year, for this life.

1. I aspire to not just love myself, but to remember every day that I can access that self-love, even when it is hard.

2. I aspire to notice every day at least one thing that I am grateful for in my life.

3. I aspire to set boundaries and stick to them, and that includes having realistic expectations for myself about what I can and cannot do.

4. I aspire to learn new things and try out things that I never thought I would or could do (pottery, swing dancing, solo international travel).

5. I aspire to tell the people in my life that I love that I love them without any expectation that they'll say it back. It is true and real and saying the words out loud is important to me.

There are more things, there always are, but a list of 5 things seems good for now (see I'm already doing #3!).

For #2, I'm grateful for my health, that today I was well enough to leave my house and do a bunch of errands and then have friends over for an evening of lots of laughs and lots of seriousness and lots of cheese. I guess there's a lot to be grateful for today.

For #4, I'm signed up for a 9 week pottery class that starts mid-January, and I'm thinking about Swing Dance lessons. I'm in the beginning stages of planning a solo international trip to Morocco and some TBA city in Europe.

For #5 I'm going to say here a bunch of loves and will probably miss people (sorry):
I love you, Mom. I love you, Dad. I love you, Courtney. I love you, Lindsey. I love you, Zachary. I love you, Dolly. I love you, Robin. I love you, Jess. I love you, Ryan. I love you, John. I love you, Michael. I love you, Doug. I love you, Susie. I love you, Fern. I love you, Jeff. I love you, Jordan. I love you, Paul. I love you, Adam. I love you, Karen. I love you, Bryan. I think my list could get really long, so I'm going to stop here and know that there are a bunch of people, a lot of people that aren't on this list, and that the list isn't in any order or ranking, and that it is almost 4am and I'm getting loopy and starting to wonder about the wiseness of this, but here it is stream of consciousness and my heart is full and the year is going.