While most of my friends have made resolutions to finally eat healthier and go to the gym more often, I have found myself at a point in my life where I no longer feel like these goals are enough on their own. I mean, how many years in a row have you promised yourself that you would start eating healthier and exercising more often, only to crumble by mid-March Don’t get me wrong, I am well aware that eating healthy and exercising are critical in terms of longevity, appearance, and overall self-confidence, but I would like to think that there are a few key ways for one to achieve and stick with such goals. Or at least, here are the ways that I envision myself actually sticking to them: 1. Live a more purposeful life 2. Be a Giver 1. I woke on the morning of December 31st with my first thoughts being about my current state of happiness and how I can work to achieve a greater sense of self-love and self-worth in 2016. To me, living a purposeful life is about living each and every day with a mindset geared towards productivity and happiness with both yourself and those around you. Living purposefully is about living with the drive to succeed, to be a good friend, a good neighbor, and an active member of society. To live with the acceptance of your own mortality. Sure, we all think that we are good friends, we are tolerable (isn’t that enough?) neighbors, and that we participate in society by giving back by doing thing such as paying taxes. Yawn. Living purposefully is so much more than that, and it is so much more exciting, too! It’s about embracing the unexpected and adapting to each and every challenge that comes your way. To live purposefully is to live with an open mind, an open heart, and the will to change things for the better. As far as carrying on goes, I know quite a bit about that. I lost my mother in 2011, and I think of this year as the breaking point for me. Every bit of comfort I had felt from her was gone. She ceased to exist, and I ceased to feel the same comfort and the same warmth that I had felt while she was alive. I was trying to finish college, I was trying to find an internship... and BAM! Everything I knew and loved was torn away from me. I broke. I can honestly say now, that in 2016, I am finally coming to terms with the loss of my mother. Though I can never get over it, I can grow from it, and this is exactly what she would want me to do. So, from here on out, I choose to live a more purposeful life for myself, my family, my friends, my mother, and my world. 2. I first read Lowis Lowry’s, “The Giver” in fourth grade, and I can still to this day claim that this was the book that changed my life for the better. This year, I am vowing to finally allow its impact to completely and wholly purpose me to live a life dedicated to the well-being and happiness of others. I will strive every day to give to my fellow humans the gifts of compassion, understanding, wisdom, help, friendship. With both of these goals in motion, I can most definitely see myself eating healthier than I already do and e̶x̶e̶r̶c̶i̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ running more often that I already do. Happy New Year, everyone! Also posted to Medium.
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