I'm More "Evolution" Than "Resolution"

Waiting until the beginning of a new year to motivate oneself is akin to your beloved waiting until Valentine's day to make you feel like "the only girl in the world."*

Girlfriend, if your man isn't rockin' your socks off** every night of the year then you need a new man. Just sayin'.

As I was saying, a new beginning can come at any time. You decide. Not the calendar. I do hereby reserve the right to "begin again" at any point. Life doesn't necessarily have a re-set button but the conscious decision to make change is not a privilege, it is a right. A right which you may exercise at any time my friend.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

You're right.

I'm busted.

The above is my way of weaseling out of the annoying custom of declaring a new year's resolution. Truth be told, I think resolutions are a good way to set yourself up for failure. I fail plenty, without the extra help, thank you very much.

Screw resolutions! A new year will not bring me to creating a list of all the useless, non-working, undesirable habits I need to slay. I just don't have that kind of time people. Nor will the new year force me to make a list of all the shit I hoped to achieve last year and still haven't started, much less completed. I am a work in progress a-hole. Rome wasn't built in a day and that little jiggle just under both ass cheeks didn't happen overnight either. It's gonna take some time. I am practicing patience. See how patiently I wait for that jiggle to pack up and move out? In the mean time I'm making Pop Tarts, sweetheart.

All smart-assedness*** aside...

I am more "evolution" than "resolution" and I consistently strive to eradicate the useless on a daily basis. Why not be all you can be? I mean, it's all you can be, right? Self improvement is a journey that once embarked upon doesn't have an ending. Is it not our hope to be be constantly evolving? Becoming a more fully realized version of that which we already are?

Go ahead and admit it, I have a good point. I'll wait...

Now that we are in agreement and while I'm chewing gum and walking my talk through 2011 I will also be:

- Launching my new project and thanking you for accepting the invitation to participation. ****

- Finishing my non-fiction narrative and making friends with an agent who believes there is room on a shelf at Border's for one more self-indulgent story about a compelling anti-hero who overcomes the rabbit's hole and morphs into a soccer mom extraordinaire. I'd read it. Totally.

- Downdog-ging***

- Uploading more pictures of my feet to all my social networking sites and adding another volume to Ode To My Toes. http://danilamb.blogspot.com/2010/08/ode-to-my-toes.html

- Listening to Dave Matthews Band and wishing he was touring this summer. If you need me I'll be "Under the table and dreaming."

- Making love. Making memories.

- Declaring Eminem a lyrical genius and pickin' up what he's putting down.

- Ballroom dancing with a broomstick in my kitchen. Gotsta be ready when "Dancing With the Stars" calls ya'll.

- Chasing rainbows and butterflies and if I am lucky I will stand in the midst of a dragonfly swarm with my first born son on a hot summer evening and wish with my whole heart that I could stop time for a moment. Just long enough to memorize, in detail, the look of wonder and delight on his sun-kissed, cherubic face.

-Reading bedtime stories to my sweet baby Jake as his eyelids get heavy and breathing slows to it's most natural rhythm. Smelling his hair while I sing him to sleep, breathing in his divinity and residing in the shock and awe that I made him.

- Banishing that jiggle and working on my wiggle with a giggle.

- Manifesting that which moves me, inspires and soothes me.

- Counting my blessings and days until Spring. Until then it's snow angels and boots with the fur. Doesn't sound so bad when I put it that way.

- Planting things (flowers and food and ideas too) just to watch them grow.

- Dreaming with my eyes open, willingness at my side and a chocolate lab sleeping at my feet.


*Rihanna. Oh Rihanna, how I love thee.
** You can still get "rocked" with your socks on if it's really cold outside. Just sayin'
*** I resolve to make up new words when I cannot think of an existing one that will do.
**** It's coming. Wait for it...wait for it. Almost. But not quite yet. ;)