New Years Resolution

"... I do not know anybody who can not do a little better than he has been doing, if he makes up his mind." -Pres. Smith

Setting goals, starting fresh, doing over, making better, expanding, growing (sometimes shrinking ;)), progressing... ahhh, I love the new year. It is a breath of fresh air to me. The new year just feels like such a perfect time to work on me. I always feel the need to become better in one area or the next from getting organized to letting things just roll off my shoulders.  And a new calendar, with no marks on it just makes me happy. 

I know I'm not alone in this feeling. The new year is when most people set resolutions. This year, however, someone I really care about told me that they didn't have any. They told me that they felt good about the things they were doing and where they were at. To be honest, I was slightly taken back when I heard this. My thoughts were, who in this world doesn't need to improve or work on becoming better... no one right? How can you feel as though you don't need any New Year's resolutions!? 

It took me a few days of thinking about this conversation that I had had with this person before I could really understand and truly start to admire them. Knowing the sincerity of how and what they had said, I realized that it's not that they don't want to improve, it's that we don't need New Year's resolutions in order to do so, if each day of the year we are working to be better and do the very best we can with our situation. 

How many of us feel the need to start our goals at the new year or the beginning of the month, or even on a monday? I'll be the first to admit that these words have come out of my mouth several times. Well, I can tell you that my goals have changed and the first one is to start today, and tomorrow, and the next day. I have a feeling this year when many people have given up on their New Years resolutions by March, I will still be going strong. 

On Sunday, we had the first lesson about the teachings of George Albert Smith. We talked about some of the resolutions that he had made when he was 34 years old. But the thing that really struck me is that they werent just goals for the year or the month, they were ideals that he had committed to live by. 

Im definitely not saying that I'm not going make goals such as learning to sew or running a 5k but I'm also not going to get down on my self when ive got all the sewing stuff set up and my sweet little boy comes to me and wants to read a story or play with his train and I don't get to it the rest of the day, because tomorrow is a new day. And even if each day brings something new and I never learn to sew... I am still going to be happy because I will know that my resolution to be a great mom is in the works.