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Resolution?

I have heard that to ensure that your New Year's resolution is easily kept, don't be too specific.  Don't limit yourself to "losing 10 lbs by February" and so on and so forth.   These are too easy to break and become another failed plan.

Resolutions are much more easily kept if summed up in a word or concept.  This is to help broaden the change you would like to bring to your life in a new year.  I like this much better because it's a broad plan, you aren't defeated by the little failures.  There may be other areas of your life change that can be viewed as victories.  A word resolution can incorporate not only yourself but  your family too.  I know when the task is for my family, I tend to be more motivated to accomplish it.

So why am I now, after almost 6 months of no posts and about 3 weeks after the New Year holiday deciding to post something?  Well for one, my word resolution of the year is not Procrastination  :) and two, my life is just busy; I mean CRAZY busy!!!

So my word resolution for the year is "Natural".  I want to live a more natural life for me and my family.  This is not limited to just how we eat but how we spend, dress, relate and basically exist. I want to be real from how I buy and grow food to how I spend time with my friends to how I interact with strangers.

It took me a long time to settle on this word.  It's such a simple word but the implications of choosing it has big changes in my life.  I pray that in the end this resolution fundamentally changes how I live my life.

We shall see.......