Diana Reader

New Years is coming quickly, and with that many are making lists of resolutions, hoping "this year will be different" but knowing that with human resolutions comes human failure.  Soon gyms will be busy with people hoping to get into shape, diet plans will be started in full force, and then people will fall back into their old ways and the gyms will become emptier and the fridge fuller.  We spend so much time searching for quick weight loss diets, run like a hamster on a wheel trying to fit into a dress by a certain date, only to end up stuffing ourselves with the food of failure, feeling heavier, and emptier all the while. I didn't post my last blog as it was more of a reflections for myself.  Feel free to read, it's a bit long but just takes about my last year's resolutions and how they played out.  This year, I wanted to do something different.  I don't want to make a resolution, but rather, a life style.  Something that I will constantly work on, try ...

With New Years around the corner, the thought of renewal, restarting, and reflecting is in the air.  This past year, I had a different type of resolution.  I chose a word to overview my year: Surrender.  Each month I would surrender something different, thinking by the end of the year I would have accomplished 12 different things. I thought it'd be insightful to sit down and write out what I had planned, and what has happened since I began this journey 12 months ago.  This blog is more for my own self reflection, so no pressure to continue reading....it's more just for me to organize the thoughts in my head so I can process it all.  You've been dually warned.  Now I'll begin. January Surrendering the need to ask for advice.  With UMD finished, and no more direction as to what I'm supposed to do with my life, I chose to stop asking everyone else what they think I should do.  This month I made all decisions by myself.  For a girl who RELIE...