My "New Years" Delay

My favorite part of the New Year is the "fresh start" feel. Where you think a whole new year means a whole new you! I love to list my goals and ideas, and try to figure out how I'm going to balance it all. I'm a sucker for planner books and calendars. But somehow, this year is different and I'm not yet sure if it's a good thing.

I did not buy the refill pages for my Franklin Covey planner, as I have done for the past two years. This is good because I hardly ever used the thing. Instead I got a plain monthly/weekly planner that feels useful and beautiful to me.

I have not written down any goals, or made a list of any kind. This is highly irregular for me. Instead I have been keeping them in my head. Floating things that become heavier each day. And so I feel as though my new year, or new me, has not come around yet. Discouraging? Maybe, in a normal year, but not this time! I know that writing things down can really help to solidify a goal, and move me forward to the next step of doing. But maybe if I mull over them a little longer it will serve to internalize the changes I want to make, maybe it will make something "stick". Or, maybe I'm just stalling....

As it is, we are 10 days into 2011. I still have stacks of dishes and piles of laundry, nothing has been organized or re-organized, I haven't come up with THE perfect routine of learning and fun for the kids, and I have a mountain of books I thought I could read. BUT, for the most part I'm happy. I know that every day can bring that "fresh-start" feeling, maybe even every hour. Why not!?!