NEW YEARS GOALS for 2013

Dear READER,

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow 2013 is finally here and I don’t know if I’m ready for it, what the heck I am so ready for 2013. I am planning and setting goals and really determined to be well amazing. (We will get back to that word ‘amazing in a minute.) I hate how we all make goals for New Years and by the summer we’ve failed so we are thinking ‘ok by Christmas what can I accomplish?’ and ‘well I’ll just start on it next year’. I HATE that. So my very first goal of the New Year’s is to never give up on what my goals are…no matter how hard they are or how bad I might be doing at them.

As you might have already noticed I’m going to let you be a part of my goal setting this year for 2013. I am really excited for this year; this is going to be my year.

So before I list my goals I would like to tell you what my 2013 motto is. I actually got it from someone else but it hit me like a brick so I decided to use it. My motto for 2013 is…………………..Drum roll please……………………………………… “Expect Amazing!” It means knowing you can do it before you even start. Know that whatever I put my mind to will be fine, not just fine but amazing. It means that I need to believe in myself and what I can do because in the end it should be amazing. I can’t really put into words how it hit me and how it makes sense in my mind and heart but it’s what I’m going with. I’ve already printed it out and have it on the bathroom mirror, the fridge, the T.V. stand and in my office at work. It’s what I am aiming to be and do. So when you read my goals and thing I plan on doing this year, just know that I have Expect Amazing with each of them. So without any further delay and rambling on, here it is for 2013.

Be absolutely Amazing!!!!!!!!  The end, no I’m kidding sorry I just thought it was really funny J

-          Loose the weight. I have 70 lbs I would rather be without so this year is the year I say goodbye to it all. If you are my friend and if you are still reading at this point you much be my friend, you will understand that when I invite you to a Zumba class or say no to going out for lunch it’s not because I don’t love you or that I think you are fat. I just want to do something that doesn’t deal with food and that will be beneficial to me. I also just really love Zumba and think you should come.

-          I want to become a work out feen. I want to know how to work out and work out good and hard.

-          I am going to learn more about sports….especially football and soccer, but also basketball, baseball, hockey. I’d say more but I think for this year I will just focus on the major ones. Then next years (2014) move on to things like tennis, golf, and so on. HONESTLY we’ll have to see how far I get with this one, but I am expecting amazing so I’m going to know them and enjoy them.

-          I am starting my Graduate studies this summer for Event Planning. I am either going to get the certificate, or just the full out Degree or both. I don’t know but I will be starting in June.

-          I intend to get a bicycle. Yes a real one, that you use outside and everything. I would love to have a basket on it but that is optional. I want it because I live right next to the bay and this lovely path and I want to ride my bike on it.

-          In May I have a work meeting in Orlando Florida. It is one of our biggest meetings and I am fully in charge of it.  So after that I am spending three to five days in Disney World, which is going to be amazing.

-          I want to walk in a few events like the ‘walk for a cure’, and ‘walk for children something or other’. So I will be keeping my eye open for events like this and then I will be attending them.

-          I want to date. At least once a month go on a date with someone. Either him asking me or me asking him. But I am determined. I just now have to muster up the courage to do it.

-          I am planning and am determined to be in Germany for Christmas or actually week before Christmas. I have a jar full of coins to use for it and also got a bonus at work which will be going to it. SO I am really excited about it. It’s taken a long time to get there but I’m finally going to be there.

-          I am going to be able to pay off my Student Loans this year. Well my loans form BYU-Idaho. I don’t know about my graduate program as of it. I do know that my office pays $4,000 a year for school so that will help it will all just depend on what I do. BUT the BYU-Idaho school loans will be paid off YEAH!!!!

-          I want to come prepared for Church (having all the reading done and prepared with questions and such) every Sunday. This shouldn’t be a problem this year as I start this new schedule of Church from 3:00pm to 6:00pm (worst ever but that’s ok I will find the positive in it somehow and you will probably hear about it in post later on down the road.

-          I would like to start my Institute program, which will include starting, working on and graduating from institute. I believe it’s a four year program like seminary was but we shall see.

-          I want to attend cultural and festive events in the area. I want to never regret not going to something I could have or would have enjoyed if I would have just gotten out of the house and done it. This might include making new friends who will go with you to these kinds of things. (plays, musical concerts, festivals, and such)

-          I will/want to attend the temple twice a month. If not more….depending on the month and times and such. But at least twice a month I will be there.

-          One of my goals I will be working on and it includes my temple attendance, church participation, institute and my other scripture and spiritual goals is that I want to have the gospel in my bones. (I’ll explain this in a later post as it deserves one to the whole concept).

-          I want to get my family together twice a month for Family Home Evening via Skype. I would like to have them be on the Christlike attributes intermingles with the For Strength of Youth as that is where some of our family is. A month for a topic is a good start and will help us as we strive to be better at the attribute and concept.

-          I would like to know the girls better in my R.S. as the Visiting Teaching Coordinator; I want to magnify my calling to the best of my ability. So I want to get to know the girls by name and really work on know their needs and the needs of companions and so forth. I can’t help if I’m not willing to learn and know.

As I am reading through my list I find that I have more and more things come to mind. So I’m stopping before it becomes impossible. I hope your New Years was a good one. I pray that this year (2013) will be a wonderful one for you and you r loved ones.

Yours Truly,

Jenessa