That's what I like about the new year... I kind of despise its marking the passage of time, but I do love the new beginning... the feeling of a clean slate that I have for the first few days. As if my history has vanished, and all of my errors have been mislaid for a while, and I have the potential to be and feel and act perfectly. My head tells me it's a little silly... that it's just a day, following along after the other sixteen thousand and something days I have previously lived... but in my imagination it is Day One.
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I read something today that suggested my brain can't really tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined. I believe to some extent this is true, because I have fully accepted a statement as true before, later remembering that someone had told it to me as a joke, or I had read it in a novel, or some other ridiculous extreme. But my brain remembered the idea, not the source, and simply accepted it.
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So today I have set my goals for the year and I will create my own reality. (Which I fully believe should occur on January first, anyway!!! I should be allowed to create a whole new world if I am not totally satisfied with my old world!)
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I have written my goals down in a kind of "goal journal" ... this will be the year of the journal for me. Goal journal, prayer journal, reading journal, exercise journal... I may combine them all into a daily group. :) I would suggest I might BLOG a journal, but I need to be able to refer back to a paper copy, all in one place! And maybe if I see positive things written about my accomplishments, my brain will believe them!!
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Sorry I was AWOL for so long. I am back on the LIMFAC defeating track. I hope some of you are still there. I will need encouragement for this one. It's a half-marathon. (Feel free to talk me out of it)
