2012 Goals

1. Run 4 major races (13 miles+) and get new half marathon PR.

2. Cross Train 2 times a week.

3. Volunteer once a week and keep a log of my volunteer hours.

4. Go to two places I have never been.

5. Read 24 books.

6. Get a new job.

7. Go to the temple every week.

8. Write in my scripture journal.

9. Write something in my journal every day.

10. Write Hayley twice a month.

11. Keep in touch with my family.

12. Work on friendships.

BONUS 

I recently was reminded how it's important to tell your goals to someone.  I guess that is so that you feel more responsibility to accomplish them. There you go someone, hold me to it.

Two Things

There are two things I have learned in the past couple months that have made a big difference in my life.

1. I have no control over what other people do.

All I have control over is how I react to the things that happen around me. I cannot tell others to do or feel anything. No matter how much it affects me and my life, I cannot make anyone do anything. I can only decide what I am going to do or feel. (I’m still figuring out how much control I actually have over my emotions.)

2. Things don’t always get better.

Things may get better but they may not. I think for the past few months I have had an enduring attitude. I thought if I just waited out the storm I could then figure out life from the wreckage. Problem is that storm I have been trying to wait out may never end. This life I am living right now may be all I am I going to get, so I better not let life pass me by without me living it.

When I first realized each of these things it was frustrating and I have found myself wishing they weren’t true. But it’s only as I have been able to accept these two things that I have actually been able to find peace and the desire to move forward.