Happy New Year!!!!

Freaked you out to see that Title didnt it? LOL I need a do over!!! I need a go back to Jan first!!! Mine didnt work out so well, and its just not acceptable.

First way to get there............... Welcome 2008, Come in, lets chat, wanna coffee, or do you prefer an arsenal of medications?

New years resolutions have never made a lick of sense to me. I make a practice to never do it.(IN LIST FORM) I think its a set up for failure.. a self fulfilled prophecy in writing. I gave that up years ago..Maybe for lent? Maybe in my twenties? It escapes me... Who hasn't known the face burn of promising the same thing, year after year, and then feeling like a bug under a rock for not sticking to it?Again I say, a set up for personal disaster. At the same time, for me, it's impossible to keep my mind from pondering all of the ways I want 2008 to be different. I am proclaiming a new title for such things. DQL improvements. (Daily Quality of Life)

**Side note: I just get the biggest little tickle out of abbreviations... but thats a different blogabout:)

So.. in a couple months when you see this abbreviation, you’ll need some blog history as not to scratch things while reading. DQL was born in my mind around 2002 when a pro and con list was being developed by Walt and myself. This list was reasons to relocate to the coast, forever. Specifically, the Five Cities area, central coast. our happy place, Pismo Beach.
Now we factored in everything from careers, income, family , friends, to demographics, weather, longevity in our senior years. The deciding line on that LIST came down to ONE thing.

DQL
So upon the return of my son from Iraq, a plan was set into motion, and rather quickly I might add, and just after the new year. I tell you this because all decisions now, ( for me) begin with.... “will it improve my daily quality of life?” (and/or How)

There are many decisions to be made this year. Some life changing, some as helpful as a UFO finish, or organizing something. Some as trivial as when the heck am I going to finish this cook book for publishing? or for my kids!!! They are just never easy eh? This year, to improve my DQL I shall to do things asking one simple question first.Unlike in my daily lists, I am not worried about crossing everything off. I am more concerned with committing my wishes from thought to pen to paper. Its difficult, at best, to know just how much of yourself to give way to a blogabout. So I dont know how much my dear readers can help me with? LOL

Surely if I cultivate the focused energy of writing down what I want, it will be more likely to happen. That's the magic of a list. Write it down, and somehow, it's a million times more likely to happen. My list will be handwritten, too. That way, energy spent in double time, will surely pay off. Of course, we can resolve to make changes any time of year. New Years Day is arbitrary, and probably not convenient, since we're a bit under the gun to do so... you know, just to have water cooler chat.. which im not against water cooler chat...I kinda dig it. ( ouch, dated me there) but I promise you, if u ask yourself the DQL question in June, its just as important as January.
I used to wonder how long I would be a WORK IN PROGRESS. Now I know.. the answer is always... I will always learn, grow, change, become....
And the more I do, the more I know, the more I need to know even more!