It's cliché, but I had to.

Happy New Year to all! I'm usually one to avoid clichés, especially that of New Year's Resolutions. These goals are admirable, but also cursed with the idea that they are, in fact, New Year's Resolutions. Does anyone ever actually accomplish them for more than a couple of weeks after that oh-so-significant stroke of midnight? I get so annoyed that the gym is so full through January 15th-ish. I am consistent with my gym attendance, and when the rest of you all of a sudden decide that you want to lose 100 pounds I am left waiting a half hour for a treadmill. Grrrrrr.

Anyway. Now that I have clarified my hatred for New Year's Resolutions, I would like to share with you my NOT New Year's Resolutions. I have declared myself exempt from the consequences of the inevitable curse because I am setting my goals on January 2nd, NOT January 1st. Sure dodged that bullet.

For a few weeks now, I've been working on a "100 things to do in 365 days" list. Problem #1...I only have 69 things right now. My first request from all of you followers: give me your recommendations of little things that I absolutely should not live any longer without experiencing. I'll blog about them as we go throughout the year, and you are welcome to read about all my adventures. Preferably these things shouldn't cost a lot of money, because I don't have any.

So, on this very random and insignificant day of January 2nd, I am beginning 3 items from my list.

• Write in my journal every single day. 
• Read my scriptures every single day. 
• Set a self improvement goal every week. See how it goes. 

My goal for this week: Be open to new things. The next few days will be full of many opportunities to pull me out of my anti-social Ecuadorian shell, and I am not going to allow myself to sit in my apartment looking at pictures of my babies and keeping warm on my mattress that is not shaped like a bowl. It's time to move on and that is exactly what I'm going to do. 

Wish me luck!