Mid-year? Yes, we are now 1/2 way thru 2009 and I thought this would be a good time to challenge everyone to dust off their New-year's resolutions. If you are like me, you had good intentions to do more, do better at something, or perhaps stop doing something when the new year rang.
I've reviewed my New Year's resolutions, and admittedly have a ways to go to get back on track. (I am happy that I actually wrote them down, so they can be assessed.)
The half way point of 2009 comes right as the Alvi 5 moved to Seoul, South Korea, so there are plenty of changes taking place. As we set roots in a new country and new culture, this will be a good time to start again with my new year's resolutions. This also means for the first time in my new year's resolutionizing, I might be doing at the end of the year that which I set out to do at the beginning.
The resolutions I'm refocusing on are:
--Speak more softly (read: stop yelling, particularly at or in response to my children). Proverbs 15:1; James 1: 19-20
--Read the Bible daily (I will restart where my chronological Bible is on the calendar as well as attempt to catch up from where I left off). Acts 17:11; Psalm 145:1-3
--Work out often (I think Crossfit will be my workout of choice for awhile, if my knee allows) 1 Corinthians 9:24-27; Philippians 3:12
One resolution I did keep already: Support (participate with?) Jewel in a Triathlon or Duathlon. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27; Hebrews 12:1-3.
I have others that I'll periodically revisit and attempt to keep, but the three above are a sufficient challenge, considering my somewhat lacking performance thus far.
Check back in another six months to see how the mid-year resolutions turned out. I'm hoping a little better than the last six months.
How about you?
Reading your resolutions made me realize how few of ours were character-related. Hmmm. We may have to think about that more for next year. I read your post out loud to Ed, and we both enjoyed it.
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