I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions anymore, but I have found a way to honor the new year. I make a list of  my strengths, what I do well, the things about me that I think are deserving of more recognition.

I hated new year’s resolutions because they made me pay attention to my faults and my weaknesses and we all know now that what we pay attention to comes true. And I never really followed through and had guilt and shame for months.

From what I read now, where I put my attention is what will actually come to fruition. So, it seems to me I should do more of what I am good at, at what I want to be or be or what gives me pleasure.

2009 commitments to my own strengths, desires, and pleasures:

1. Read more books
2. Drink more whiskey
3. Tell people I like them more often
4. Spend more time with people I really care about
5. Ask for something I really want
6. Wear more red
7. Laugh more often… and louder
8. Carve out more time to write
9. Dig deeper on OS
10. Find ways to connect more deeply with money
11. Don’t give up on finding my flock
12. Give books as gifts
13. Cry if I want to
14. Be open to intimacy
15. Run my life with the 3 ps: people, planet, profit