2012 Resolutions Around The Blogosphere!
NEWS | Mommy Niri | January 2, 2012 at 1:31 pmLove ‘em or hate ‘em you have to admit a New Year just smells better with new hopes and goals. Sure come end of January and you may break some of them but truth be told they will always be lingering on your mind. I personally just love the opportunity to start to think about what is important for me to start with. Something about a clean slate makes you itch to write on it.
I asked a few friends of mine about their resolutions and loved reading the responses.
Carol Cain
My resolution, if this is what it is called, remains the same for 2012. Professionally, I am busy and have tons of projects already in place of which I am proud and excited about. But personally I am also passionate about the stance I have taken and selective about the people who surround me.
Life is too beautiful and short, too precious and fragile. It is not meant to be wasted or taken for granted. For 2012, I promise to love, give, support, cheer for, laugh with, and be there for my family, my friends, and at least a little each day for me too.
Live, love and laugh. Make every day worth it. Happy New Year everyone!
Nicole Feliciano
Professionally, I resolve to continue to make my case for higher rates fro my site and my time. I resolve to take mediocre pitches and turn them into an opportunity to educate PR firms about my worth. I am going to have a series of cut and paste replies. You know how we get the Dear Mommy Blogger pitches? Well, I’ll have a standard reply to match the level of effort and interest that went into such silly pitches. I’m going to spend more time and effort working the the brands and professionals that understand our capacity to start a conversation amongst smart, savvy women.
Personally, I resolve to attempt to get to bed earlier!
Audrey McClelland
I want to take my whole family, all 4 kids to Disney for a full week. We’ve never all been together, and I would love nothing more than to see 4 smiling faces walk into the Parks. I also would like to surprise them with the trip. It’s a goal for 2012, we’ll see if it happens, but we’ve been talking about it seriously! I feel like they’re at the perfect ages – 3, 4, 6 and 7.
Hollee Temple
I am resolving to worry less in 2012! (This makes sense for the author of Good Enough Is the New Perfect, doesn’t it?) I recently read an interesting story from CNN, which offered Six Tips from Your Future Self. The tips are based on the research of a Cornell professor, who conducted several studies involving 1,200 older Americans and the advice they would offer to the younger generation. The CNN piece highlighted excessive worry as a big regret: “[I}f there’s one do-over the elders wish they could have, it would be not spending precious time worrying obsessively about the future. They said this as clearly as can be: ‘Worry wastes your life.’ ‘Worrying never solved anything. So don’t.’
Anissa Mayhew
Kimberly Coleman
One of my favorite quotes is “Action expresses priorities.” by Mahatma Gandhi. In 2012, I resolve to consistently act in a manner that is true to my personal priorities. If I do that, I’m confident that everything else will fall into place.
Joanne Bamberger
I’m resolving this year to make more time for myself. I have a habit of putting everything else first — my family, my work, etc., and then find little time for things like exercise and friends. For my own mental and physical health, I’m committing to take one hour a day for me to address those things. Sadly, that means I’m also going to have to get out of bed earlier to accomplish this, and I am not a morning person! My fingers are crossed I can accomplish this!
Meredith Sinclair
The first one is “gumption”. I want to cut the strings of fear and limitation. To go for those big, unrealistic dreams and not look down.
The second is “grace”. I want to have more of it. For my family, my friends, and myself.
And the third is “grind-stone”. This one is all about putting the time, energy and sometimes hard work into what means the most to me. My family, my home, my friendships, and my creative work.
Melissa Chapman
2011 was a brutal year, it was the year my dad, the firs love of my life passed away and this experience has changed me in ways I can’t even articulate. I think the one common thread of all the resolutions I have swirling about in my head is that I will not sweat the small stuff in every aspect of my life. I feel the need to spend less time obsessing on the things I can’t change and more time on the stuff that really matters; my kids, my husband, my dog, myself. I will not allow little things to throw me into a full on panic and tizzy- I will not allow others to dictate to me where or what I should be doing. I am going to spend this year getting truly comfortable in this 38 year old body of mine- crooked nose, big butt and loving every last square inch of myself. I am going to honor my father’s spirit by seeing each day as a new gift to unwrap, explore and to care less about the crumbs underfoot and my husband’s refusal to change his clothes. I’m going to try desperately to just be, and feel that is good enough.
Kate Hayes
So…my main resolution for 2012 is to try to live in the moment with my family as much as possible. I want to stop trying to capture every second for social media’s sake and just focus on laughing and loving a little longer instead, especially while my kids are still little. Social media is a wonderful thing, but it has also become a huge distraction in my life. I need to figure out how to turn it back a few notches. I also want to focus more on writing children’s books (my personal career goal) and less on blogging. 2012 will be a year for getting my priorities straight!
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I’m inspired. Love the priorities of these ladies and honored to be included. Now what’s your resolution Niri?
I just realized I forgot about me. Typical! Going to have to do a post on that.
Beautiful! I love each and every one of these. (Especially Anissa’s!)
Anissa’s is lovely but thinking a pipe-dream in my home. The kids consider the bathroom door a revolving one
Loved reading what others will be striving for this year. This is my year of no big resolutions – just true baby steps.
Mine is still percolating in my head.
Bummed I missed this awesome opportunity Niri! But these are great resolutions from great bloggers I admire. While not in your post, I did post some 2012 goals on my blog featuring the 6 blog topics I write about. Hope it is okay to share : http://www.charlenechronicles.com/home/new-years-goals/. Though my #1 personal goal is to have a healthy baby! All in all, I hope everyone has an amazing year ahead!
I am still catching up and need to carve out my own
LOVE these!! I love the theme of taking time for ourselves, and making our worth a priority- both personal and professional.
These really got me thinking too
HONORED to be in this group– and am stealing ALL of these!!
Love having you here Melissa!
There are so many great nuggets that I plan on “borrowing” from these resolutions. Thanks for the round-up Niri!
Totally so many things inspiring me here too
Love these all – adopting many as my own, since I just couldn’t come up with one myself! Cheers to all you fantastic women and best wishes for 2012!
I hear you Dawn – trying to sort out my own too
Thanks for including my pipe dream!!! xoxo
If you nail it consider me (very) jealous!
What an inspiring roundup by great women!
I loved that these felt real and personal. So many of us are taking a critical look at what is important
thanks for this post. It’s nice to know that we are all struggling with the same things: balance!
Doubt it can ever be achieved bu hoping more for figuring out priorities
very interesting to see my own intentions / goals reflected in many of these! Value myself with higher rates, spend more playful time with my children, and dial back the social media.
Loved reading these, thanks.
So true – I think after a while we figure out all that glitters is not gold and we realize our true treasure
Anissa Mayhew, people actually bother to knock at your house?
I love these resolutions, all! Thanks for sharing them publicly!
Yeah, Anissa is kinda lucky that way – mine barge in.
Worrying less would be nice to accomplish.
That is probably one of the hardest things to break
Niri,
Thanks for putting this together! So neat to see that I’m not the only one looking for more balance in the blogosphere. I couldn’t help but wonder though…what are your resolutions??
Coming soon Kate, coming soon…