This year I promise to.....

Actually use this blog. I started this blog a couple of years ago with visions of my funny children keeping me inspired to write at least once a day. While they are quite the inspiration I often find that a status update serves the purpose of a funny story instead of a whole blog. I also have several friends who are VERY talented bloggers and writers. If I were smart I would use their blogs as inspiration and not to feel defeated about my own writing, but I usually read one of their stories that has me just about peeing my pants and decide I'll never make it as a blogger so I move on to facebooking and mommying because I'm pretty good at those things (ok the mommying thing is sometimes debatable :).

That attitude is moving out this year! I am deeming 2012 as the year of sheer success and wealth. It is going to be EPIC because of the people I surround myself, the goals that I have and the new attitude that my husband and I have been sharing the last several months. One of the most influential things we did this year was get involved with an amazing gym. We started martial arts as a family - everyone participates except the little two and within a few months I was working in the fitness industry again as a group exercise instructor, coordinator and personal trainer. I feel alive again. I feel a part of something so much bigger than myself. I feel like I am changing people's lives and it feels awesome. The people at the gym, yes a bunch of cage fighters, are some of the most amazing people my husband and I have ever met. They are positive, they love life, they love their creator and they only expect awesomeness. Since becoming involved with these fantastic people we have become more positive people. We write our goals down, we check them off when we get there, we have a WAY different attitude about finances and we stay in a much more positive place 90% of the time (the other 10% we are very human, get frustrated, yell at the kids too much, and become more negative). We listen to motivational speakers, we read motivational books, we pray fervently and without ceasing, we keep journals and have instilled these things in the kiddos (one day I should attach a picture of Sydney's journal and goals to this blog....so.incredibly.sweet and real). I tell you all this so that you can hold me accountable in 2012. I am listing the things I will accomplish in 2012 so here goes:

In this the year of Sheer Success and Wealth the following things will happen:

- I will finish the book I am working on.

- I will blog weekly

- I will keep my personal training schedule full, challenging and life altering for those that hire me to do so

- We will sell our house

- We will FINALLY go to the beach (we've been promising Sydney we'll go the last 3 years and when it comes right down to it we say we can't afford it - NO MORE!)

- I will read at least 10 motivational books on business, wealth and/or leadership

- My children will continue to see happy, stress free parents that ALWAYS make time to do what's important on their list - no matter how small and unimportant it seems to me

- I will make time every day to make myself a better person, a better Christian, a better leader, a better mommy and a better wife, even if it means only having time for a short scripture and prayer.

- I will change people's lives with my knowledge, my leadership skills, my infectious positive attitude and my quest for happiness, Sheer Success and Wealth.

Stay tuned for more life changing news from the Arrant front