2018

New Years Eve... It's here! In just a few hours, a new year will be upon us. I normally take a lot longer time to reflect on one year and dream about the coming year. But this year, I didn't have that luxury.

Just yesterday, I took down my 2017 vision board and stared blankly at the bulletin board. I had nothing to come to mind as to what I wanted to accomplish in 2018. I felt tired reflecting back on what I had gone through and accomplished this year, and even more tired considering the future.

I turned to Pinterest with only a few vague concepts -- I wanted to focus on self care and quilting. And that's all I knew. And the inspiration began to grow...

It's not so much self care that I want to incorporate more, it's actually self love. Doing things out of love for myself. Learning to love myself. Treating my body and my mind and my emotions with respect. Speaking positively about myself to myself. Finding balance between completing intense workouts and slower, more mindful yoga.

Daniel and I also brainstormed some goals we wanted to reach this year. We came up with a homeowner goal: new flooring in the living areas of the house (including repairing the kitchen floor). We decided to limit our travel goals to one large trip toward the end of the year: travel to Disney World and Wizarding World of Harry Potter (culminating all holidays, anniversaries, and birthday gifts and trips into one).

It feels really good to have these goals. My 2017 vision board was actually the same as my 2016 vision board -- I didn't feel at the start of 2017 that I was done with the work I wanted to accomplish on the board. So I pretty much left it alone. It felt good to look at that board yesterday and realize that I had done the work and made the progress I'd wanted to make, that it was time to strip the board clean and come up with new vision goals.

So now that I've got the concepts, it's time to create the board to reflect the conceptual goals.